Chris Kymn

PhD Student

Neuroscience

Olshausen Lab

Current Research

I’m a graduate student in the Neuroscience PhD program at UC Berkeley.

Selected publications:

  • Christopher J. Kymn, Sonia Mazelet, Anthony Thomas, Denis Kleyko, E. Paxon Frady, Friedrich T. Sommer, and Bruno A. Olshausen. “Binding in hippocampal-entorhinal circuits enables compositionality in cognitive maps.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
  • Christopher J. Kymn, Denis Kleyko, E. Paxon Frady, Connor Bybee, Pentti Kanerva, Friedrich T. Sommer, and Bruno A. Olshausen. (2024). Computing with residue numbers in high-dimensional representation. Neural Computation, 37 (1), 1-37 (2025).
  • Christopher J. Kymn*, Sonia Mazelet, Annabel Ng, Denis Kleyko, and Bruno A. Olsahausen. Compositional factorization of visual scenes with convolutional sparse coding and resonator networks. In 2024 Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference (NICE) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.
  • Denis Kleyko, Christopher J. Kymn, Anthony Thomas, Bruno A. Olshausen, Friedrich T. Sommer, E. Paxon Frady. “Principled Neuromorphic Reservoir Computing.Nature Communications 16, 640 (2025).

For additional publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

Background

  • PhD, Neuroscience, UC Berkeley (ABD)
  • MSc, Neurosciences, LMU Munich
  • BA, Computer Science and Philosophy, Dartmouth College