Alperen Cimen
PhD Student · Psychological and Brain Sciences · UC Santa Barbara
My research interests lie at the intersection of experimental and computational neuroscience. I aim to reveal a mechanistic understanding of the network algorithms used by both artificial and biological neural networks.
I am a prospective PhD student in the Psychological & Brain Sciences program at UC Santa Barbara, advised by Dr. Andy Alexander with co-advisor Dr. Nina Miolane. I completed my B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with a Minor in Computer Science, at Ozyegin University, Istanbul, in 2026.
News
- Sept 2026 Starting PhD in Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara.
- July 2026 Graduated with a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ozyegin University.
- Dec 2025 Paper accepted at NeurIPS'25 NeurReps Workshop: Learning rate collapse prevents training recurrent neural networks at scale.
- Nov 2025 Presented poster at NeurReps'25 Conference: Dimensionality of population-level latent mechanisms encoding spatial representations.
- Nov 2025 Presented NeuroZoo poster at Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2025.
- Nov 2024 Presented Zoo of RNNs poster at Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2024.
Selected Publications
Learning rate collapse prevents training recurrent neural networks at scale
B. Kurtkaya, M. Harmanli*, A. Cimen*, A. Alexander, N. Miolane, F. Dinc†, Y. Yemez†
NeurIPS'25 – NeurReps Workshop · 2025
* equal contribution · † equal supervision · Full list →