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Mahyar Maleki

Mahyar Maleiki

Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition

Guest Scientist

Address
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room JK 25/222h
14195 Berlin

Personal profile

I joined the lab in January 2026 as a guest researcher and hope to continue here as a PhD student. I hold a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Tehran. During my studies, my interests gradually shifted toward the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, particularly how computational models can help us understand brain functions. My master's research focused on visual perception using EEG and naturalistic video stimuli. I studied how temporal information contributes to action recognition by comparing neural responses to videos and static images. More broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on visual perception, neural representations, and brain-inspired machine learning.

Outside the lab, I spend my time watching movies and anime, experimenting with cooking, and going hiking.

My main interest lies in how the human brain builds stable, generalizable visual representations from dynamic and naturalistic input. I want to understand how format-independent representations emerge in the brain, using EEG signals. I am also interested in how deep neural networks and video-based models can be aligned with these brain representations. My research is currently funded by a scholarship from Freie Universität Berlin