As random connections are added to a network, a giant connected component suddenly appears. This phase transition shapes connectivity in many complex systems from brain networks to ecosystems to power grids.

I have created a website for my visuals of dynamical motifs! These provide a nice introduction to dynamical systems in the context of neuroscience. Also thank you to Dr. Paul Miller for giving me permission to animate his figures.

Link here: mitchellslapik.github.io/dynamical_mo...

Excited to announce the 2nd paper of my PhD, which investigates how edge detectors contribute to representational untangling, making object categories more linearly separable than they are in pixel space. Now out in Neural Computation: direct.mit.edu/neco/article...

Excited to announce the first paper of my PhD, which explores an inverse relationship between brain and retina complexity. We think this may reflect a more general trade-off between central and peripheral processing of sensory information. Read more here: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...