Aran Nayebi
Assistant Professor
Builds AI models of the brain and studies computational neuroscience and cognition.
Aran Nayebi's lab at CMU works on neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces and computational neuroscience & cognition. 6 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and AAAI/ACM AIES. 4 PhD students and 1 master's student. 8 alumni, most often to Genesis AI and Lavoro AI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 2
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, AAAI/ACM AIES
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces2 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition0 papers
- cognition0 papers
- computational neuroscience0 papers
- neuroscience0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- The Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Special Track on AI AlignmentIntrinsic barriers and practical pathways for human‑AI alignment: an agreement‑based complexity analysis (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI/ACM AIESWhen do AI gains become broadly shareable? A policy threshold for AI-driven automation (opens in a new tab)
20252 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Intrinsic goals for autonomous agents: model-based exploration in virtual zebrafish predicts ethological behavior and whole-brain dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Task‑optimized convolutional recurrent networks align with tactile processing in the rodent brain (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed, 67% to industry
Industry 2Academia 1
Most often to
- Genesis AI
- Lavoro AI
Also to
- University of Maryland
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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