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tanish mendki

tanish mendki

how do humans and models see the world? post-bac researcher, visual inference lab · columbia zuckerman institute ucsb, bs x2 · graduated march 2026

about me

i'm a post-baccalaureate researcher in the visual inference lab at columbia's zuckerman institute, working with nikolaus kriegeskorte on how well the measures we use to compare neural and model representations actually capture representational geometry — and where they break.

before columbia, i graduated from uc santa barbara with degrees in statistics and data science and psychological and brain sciences, where i spent three years in the vision & image understanding lab studying how humans and artificial systems represent visual information.

outside the lab, i'm currently adjusting to life in new york city...

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