About Me

Hi! My name is Kaiwen Bian and I am a 4th year undergraduate student at UC SanDiego double majoring in Data Science and Cognitive Behavoral Neuroscience. I am fortunate to recieve mentorship from Dr. Talmo Pereira from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Prof. Scott Linderman from the Statistics Department and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, and Prof. Yusu Wang from the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego.

Representation is all you need: from building autoregressive sequence and graph generation to designing human-aligned robot interactions to understanding the human brain, everything comes down to finding the right space in which the problem becomes simple. I like to view puzzles in different domain with a computational lens and build tools that can learn such right representation. My research interest mostly focus on solving interesting yet computationally complex problems related to embodied agents, representation learning, and computational neuroscience.

Outside of my academic life, I enjoy skateboarding, diving into the world of exercise physiology, and immersing myself in the serenity of the natural world