Joel Ye

NeuroAI researcher

Say hello: joelye9 at gmail dot com

Bio

I am a NeuroAI researcher at a stealth startup in NYC. I research how deep learning systems can advance how we study brain data and build bi-directional brain-computer interfaces. If you're just getting started in this area and would like advice, feel free to reach out!

I completed my PhD in Neural Computation at CMU in 2026, advised by Robert Gaunt and Leila Wehbe. My doctoral research was supported by the DOE CSGF fellowship.

In my Master's I researched embodied navigation with Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans, and Abhishek Das. I also worked on modeling neural data with Chethan Pandarinath.

I grew up in NYC, where I graduated from Stuyvesant High School, and I did my undergrad in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. During my undergrad, I was Director of Technology for Georgia Tech's hackathon org, HackGT, where we worked to host events to promote CS education.

Projects

A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder

Joel Ye, Fabio Rizzoglio, Adam Smoulder, Hongwei Mao, Xuan Ma, Patrick Marino, Raeed Chowdhury, Dalton Moore, Gary Blumenthal, William Hockeimer, Nicolas G. Kunigk, J. Patrick Mayo, Adam Rouse, Aaron Batista, Steven Chase, Charles Greenspon, Lee Miller, Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Andrew Schwartz, Jennifer L. Collinger, Leila Wehbe, Robert Gaunt
In submission

FALCON (Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding)

Brianna Karpowicz*, Joel Ye*, Chaofei Fan, Pablo Tostado-Marcos, Fabio Rizzoglio, Clay Washington, Thiago Scodeler, Diogo de Lucena, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Matthew J. Mender, Xuan Ma, Ezequiel Matias Arneodo, Leigh R. Hochberg, Cynthia A. Chestek, Jaimie M. Henderson, Timothy Q. Gentner, Vikash Gilja, Lee E. Miller, Adam G. Rouse, Robert A. Gaunt, Jennifer L. Collinger, Chethan Pandarinath
NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks)

Neural Data Transformer 2

Joel Ye, Jennifer C. Collinger, Leila Wehbe, Robert Gaunt
NeurIPS (2023)

Neural Latents Benchmark

Felix Pei*, Joel Ye*, David Zoltowski, Anqi Wu, Raeed H. Chowdhury, Hansem Sohn, Joseph O'Doherty, Krishna V. Shenoy, Matthew T. Kaufman, Mark Churchland, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Lee E. Miller, Jonathan Pillow, Il Memming Park, Eva L. Dyer, Chethan Pandarinath
NeuRIPS 2021, Datasets and Benchmarks

Auxiliary Tasks and Exploration Enable ObjectNav

Joel Ye, Dhruv Batra, Abhishek Das, Erik Wijmans
ICCV 2021 | 2021 Habitat ObjectNav Challenge 1st place

Neural Data Transformers

Joel Ye, Chethan Pandarinath
NBDT (2021)

Auxiliary Tasks Speed Up Learning PointGoal Navigation

Joel Ye, Dhruv Batra, Erik Wijmans*, Abhishek Das*
CoRL, 2020