Andrii Zahorodnii

zaho [at] mit [dot] edu

About


I am a Member of Technical Staff at Merge Labs, working at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. I completed my undergraduate and master's studies at MIT in Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, where my research focused on representation learning from large-scale human neural recordings. At MIT, I was advised by Prof. Ila Fiete and previously worked with Guangyu Robert Yang.

I co-founded the Ukraine Leadership and Technology Academy to equip young Ukrainians with the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to rebuild Ukraine into a thriving, European nation. I won the Schwarzman Scholarship and am a Cerebras Fellow. I co-organize TEDxMIT. I was awarded the 2025 Glushko Prize for Outstanding Research (4/17/2025).

Projects & Publications


BT-bench visualization

Neuroprobe: Evaluating Intracranial Brain Responses to Naturalistic Stimuli

[ paper ] [ GitHub ] [ Leaderboard Website ]

Andrii Zahorodnii* · Christopher Wang* · Bennett Stankovits* · Charikleia Moraitaki · Geeling Chau · Andrei Barbu · Boris Katz · Ila R. Fiete on arXiv (2025)


Macaque MST firing rates and cue-to-delay tuning inversion from Figure 5a

Overcoming sensory-memory interference in working memory circuits

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Andrii Zahorodnii · Diego Mendoza-Halliday · Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo · Ning Qian · Robert Desimone · Christopher J. Cueva under review at Nature Neuroscience (2025)


Project Jenkins: Monkey Thinks, Robot Moves... and Back?

[ project page ] [ code ]

Andrii Zahorodnii · Dima Yanovsky at MIT (2025)


Improving World Models using Deep Supervision with Linear Probes

[ paper ]

Andrii Zahorodnii in ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models, and on arXiv (2025)


Paper Quality Assessment based on Individual Wisdom Metrics from Open Peer Review

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Andrii Zahorodnii · Jasper J.F. van den Bosch · Ian Charest · Christopher Summerfield · Ila R. Fiete on arXiv (2025)


The engagement of the cerebellum and basal ganglia enhances expertise in a sensorimotor adaptation task

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Joshua B Tan · Eli Müller · Andrii Zahorodnii · James M Shine in Imaging Neuroscience, Vol. 2, pp. 1-20, MIT Press (2024)

Writing


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