I am a research scientist at Google DeepMind, where I co-lead the Neuroscience Lab. I am also an honorary lecturer at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London. My work asks questions like “Can we understand what the brain is doing well enough to reproduce it in software?”

This work often involves collecting large datasets from rodents or other animals playing structured games, then carefully studying both the choices that they make and the neural signals that underlie those choices. It also involves constructing software agents that play the same games, and using these agents as tools for understanding the brain. I’m excited about using new AI methods as tools for discovering appropriate software agents in a data-driven way.

Before moving to London, I did a PhD at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute with Carlos Brody and Matt Botvinick. My PhD work focused on understanding how the brain makes plans, with a focus on the orbitofrontal cortex and the hippocampus.

You can get in touch with me at kevinjmiller@deepmind.com or at kevin.miller@ucl.ac.uk.