About Me
I am a third year PhD student at MIT EECS, where I am grateful to be under the guidance of Professor Nir Shavit as a member of the Shavit Lab. Prior to my graduate studies, I received my BA in computer science and in neuroscience from Columbia University, where I conducted research at the Peter Sims Lab.
I am curious about how computation arises on the scale of individual or small groups of neurons in both biological and artifical neural networks. I approach these questions through connectomics and mechanisic interpretability, with the goal of informing more efficient machine learning systems.
News
- June 2025: My work Input differentiation via negative computation was accepted into ICML 2025 Workshop HiLD
- May 2025: My work A connectomics-driven analysis reveals novel characterization of border regions in mouse visual cortex was accepted for publication in the journal Neural Networks
- March 2025: I gave a talk on my work Wasserstein distances, neuronal entanglement, and sparsity at Red Hat in Cambridge
- January 2025: My work Wasserstein distances, neuronal entanglement, and sparsity was accepted into ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight Presentation
- October 2024: I was selected as a Cerebras Research Fellow
- May 2024: I received my SM from MIT EECS on Sparse Expansion and neuronal disentanglement
- April 2024: I received an Honorable Mention from the NSF GFRP
Selected Works
Input differentiation via negative computation
Presented at ICML 2025 Workshop HiLD
Linghao Kong*, Angelina Ning*, & Nir N. Shavit
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A connectomics-driven analysis reveals novel characterization of border regions in mouse visual cortex
Accepted for publication in Neural Networks, 2025
Neehal Tumma*, Linghao Kong*†, Shashata Sawmya, Tony T. Wang, & Nir N. Shavit†
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Wasserstein distances, neuronal entanglement, and sparsity
Published in ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight Presentation
Shashata Sawmya*, Linghao Kong*, Ilia Markov, Dan Alistarh, & Nir N. Shavit
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Presynaptic input synchrony at scale
Presented at COSYNE 2025
Linghao Kong*, Heidi Durresi*, Lu Mi, & Nir N. Shavit
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