Max Kleiman-Weiner

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I grew up in southern California, and did my undergraduate work at Stanford studying neural mechanisms of synchronization. I then decided to beef up on my modelling skills and did a masters in applied statistics at Oxford. I'm currently a PhD student at MIT in the brain and cognitive sciences department where I'm interested in Bayesian models of cognition in humans and machines. I've done some work on sampling based approximations to inference over generative models and planning in complex and structured environments.

Recently, I've wanted to build some models of negotiation games and would be interested in an agent-based model of negotiation on complex networks. Otherwise, I've also been curious about models of literature and digital humanities (maybe Shakespeare).

Outside of science, I enjoy honing my craft as an amateur sushi chef, turning data into music and butchering the Chinese language.