| Sep 01, 2026 | Began thesis research in the Machine Learning and Data Science Unit, on learnable-novelty signals and soft inductive biases in world models. |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Finished my third and final rotation, with Prof. Jun Tani — an evolutionary-developmental take on curiosity-driven robot learning. Three rotations down; thesis work begins. |
| Mar 09, 2026 | Presented my spiking basal-ganglia model of dopamine-modulated plasticity at the Winter Workshop 2026 on Mechanism of Brain and Mind, Rusutsu, Hokkaido. |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fast Dynamical Similarity Analysis is on arXiv — a metric for comparing nonlinear dynamical systems that stays faithful to the dynamics without the usual compute bill. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | Started my Ph.D. at OIST in Okinawa.  |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Presented Heterogeneous Effect of Input and Task-optimization on the Dynamics of RNNs at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam, supported by a CCN travel award. |