About Isaac
Isaac is a LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford and at Weill Cornell Medicine, working with Nick Haber and Logan Grosenick. He is interested in working at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, and psychology to study the neural underpinnings of curiosity-guided exploration and world modeling. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford working in the labs of Karl Deisseroth and Gordon Wetzstein, where he developed and applied new imaging methods that harness computation and novel optical designs to enable fast, volumetric, large field of view recording. Previously, he co-led development of fiber photometry (with Logan Grosenick in the Deisseroth Lab), a technique for recording the activity of genetically and topographically defined neural structures, which we used to discover projection-specific neural dynamics in social behavior. I further developed techniques for cell-type specific imaging of the intact cortex in behaving mice.