CV

A complete CV can be found at this link

Education

• Ph.D in neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2024
• B.S. in biology, University of Chicago, 2016
  • neuroscience specialization
  • computational neuroscience minor

Research experience

• Summer 2024 - present: postdoc
  • MIT
  • Supervisor: Mehrdad Jazayeri
• Spring 2018 - Spring 2024: graduate student
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Project: representation of uncertainty in macaque visual cortex
  • Supervisor: Robbe Goris
• Fall 2017: rotation student
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Project: optimal tuning curves for efficient coding
  • Supervisor: Thibaud Taillefumier
• 2013 - 2016: research assistant and summer intern
  • University of Chicago
  • Project: speed invariance of texture perception
  • Supervisor: Sliman Bensmaia

Publications

Boundy-Singer, Z.M. , Ziemba, C.M., Henaff, O., Goris, R.T.L. (2024). How does V1 population activity inform perceptual certainty? Journal of Vision. PDF

Boundy-Singer, Z.M.^* , Ziemba, C.M.^*, Goris, R.T.L. (2023). Confidence as a noisy decision reliability estimate. Nature Human Behavior. PDF

Henaff, O., Boundy-Singer, Z.M. , Meding, K., Ziemba, C.M., Goris, R.T.L. (2020). Representation of visual uncertainty through neural gain variability. Nature Communications. PDF

Boundy-Singer, Z.M., Saal, H.P., Bensmaia, S.J. (2017). Speed invariance of texture perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. PDF

Preprints

Talks

• SFN, 2023:
  • The representation of visual uncertainty in V1 population activity.
• VSS, 2023:
  • Relating V1 population activity to perceptual orientation uncertainty
• COSYNE Workshops, 2023:
  • Perceptual confidence: computational and physiological mechanisms
• UT Austin, 2022: Institute of neuroscience (INS) Dialogues
  • Decision confidence: computational and physiological mechanisms
• UT Austin, 2021: Center for perceptual systems seminar series
  • Representation of uncertainty by macaque V1 populations

Teaching

• UT Austin, Spring 2021 & Spring 2022: Teaching assistant for PSY 194 - ethics and professional development

Skills

• MATLAB
• Python
• LaTeX
• Adobe illustrator