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Gautam Reddy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, where he earned a degree in engineering physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining Princeton, he served as an NSF-Simons Fellow and worked as a research scientist at NTT Research's Physics Informatics Labs. His research draws from a diverse set of problems in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, focusing on understanding both living and artificial systems and their processes of high-dimensional information to solve goal-oriented tasks. He leads the Reddy Lab, which develops novel physics-inspired theoretical tools to build phenomenological models for learning and decision-making in collaboration with experimental biologists. His work utilizes machine learning models in 'experimental systems' to motivate new theoretical advancements.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.