Emily Mackevicius
Senior Research Scientist, Basis Research Institute
- United States of America
About Emily Mackevicius
Emily Mackevicius is a co-founder and director of Basis Research Institute, where she leads the Collaborative Intelligent Systems group. She did her postdoctoral work studying memory-expert birds in the Aronov lab and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia, and her PhD work studying how birds learn to sing in the Fee lab at MIT. She is interested in how intelligent behaviors emerge, especially in distributed and recurrent systems. Her theoretical work is strongly grounded in experimental practice, currently high-resolution behavioral recordings of groups of animals foraging in environments ranging from NYC parks and subways to Arctic Alaska.
