Kris Jensen

Education

PhD Computational Neuroscience (2019 - present)

University of Cambridge Supervisor: Dr Guillaume Hennequin

Development of Bayesian latent variable models for neural population recodings (Jensen et al. 2020, Jensen & Kao et al. 2021).
Continual learning in biological motor circuits and for AI (Jensen et al. 2021, Kao & Jensen et al. 2021).
Planning and decision making in biological and artificial agents.

MPhil Computational Biology (2018 - 2019)

University of Cambridge & Harvard Center for Brain Science Result: Distinction (89.1/100; 1^st of 19 students) Supervisor: Professor Bence Ölveczky

Dissertation: Long-Term Stability of Neural Dynamics Underlying Stereotyped Behavior

BA Natural Sciences

University of Cambridge Result: First Class Honors (82.7/100; 1^st of 112 students)

UCSD Department of Cognitive Science (2022)

Supervisor: Dr Marcelo Mattar

Studying planning and decision making with behaviour, neural recordings, and deep RL.

Harvard Center for Brain Science (2018 - )

Supervisor: Professor Bence Ölveczky

Analysis of the neural stability of motor memories from extracellular recordings.
Training of GLMs and recurrent network models of representational stability and drift.
Jensen et al. (2021)

Janelia Research Campus (2018 - 2019)

Supervisor: Professor Vivek Jayaraman

Analysis of electron miscroscopy \& RNAseq data from the fly head direction circuit.\
Development of experimentally inspired biophysical and recurrent network models.
Turner-Evans et al. (2020)

Cambridge Centre for Computational Chemistry (2017 - 2018)

Development of a Hartree Fock-based method for modeling electron transfer reactions. \
Characterization of the electronic states in a computational model of a solar cell.
Jensen et al. (2018)

Aarhus University Department of Biomedicine (2016 - 2017)

Investigation of factors affecting the efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing. \
Design of new CRISPR-based tools for improved genomic and epigenomic control.
Jensen et al. (2017)

Neuromatch Academy

University of Cambridge

Teaching Assistant - 3rd year computational neuroscience (2020 & 2022)
Supervisor (Teaching Assistant) - 3rd year mathematical electrophysiology (2021)
Supervisor (Teaching Assistant) - 3rd year theoretical chemistry (2018-2020)

Fellowships & scholarships

Prizes

Georgina Winnifred Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize for best performance in undergraduate chemistry (2018)
Gill, Bundy & B.C. Saunders prizes for excellence in university examinations (2016-2018)
BP Prize for the best performance in practical chemistry (2018)
BP Prize for the best performance in theoretical chemistry (2017)
Silver medal - The International Chemistry Olympiad (2014 & 2015)