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Erin Grant
she / her

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
at University College London (UCL).

Research summary: I study learning in minds, brains, and machines using a combination of behavioral experiments, computational simulations, and analytical techniques. See my research page for more.

Here is a more formal bio that can be used to introduce me.

Recent News

Sep 2025

🧠💭 Our workshop on Data on the Brain & Mind was accepted to NeurIPS 2025! Calls for contributions to the Findings and Tutorials tracks are now open.

Aug 2025

The 3rd edition of the Summer School on Analytical Connectionism is taking place in London!

I attended the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) in Amsterdam to present a poster, moderate a GAC, host a hackathon, represent the CCN TPC, and talk science with many awesome people.

Jul 2025

I gave a lecture + tutorial session on representational alignment at the July Cognition Academy of the Max Planck School of Cognition.

Touring new paper on function vs. representation in neural networks! Lukas presented this as a spotlight at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, and I presented it as a poster at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam.

I visited Italy to give an invited talk at Bocconi University in Milan and then head to Trieste do the same at YiHD 2025 at ICTP!

Jun 2025

I attended RLDM in Dublin to give an invited talk at the Workshop on “Representational alignment and aging.”

Apr 2025

🧠💭🤖 Our workshop on Representational Alignment is back at ICLR 2025!

Feb 2025

I attended the Simons Institute’s Workshop on LLMs, cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience in Berkeley.

Dec 2024

I gave an invited talk at the UniReps Workshop at NeurIPS.

Recent Publications

For a complete list, see my research page or my CV.

Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks.
Lukas Braun, Erin Grant, Andrew Saxe.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Spotlight presentation (<3% of submissions).
A primer on analytical learning dynamics of nonlinear neural networks.
Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Erin Grant.
In ICLR Blog Posts Track, 2025.
Appeared at ICLR 2025 as a main conference poster..
Nonlinear dynamics of localization in neural receptive fields.
Leon Lufkin, Andrew Saxe, Erin Grant.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Spotlight presentation (<4% of submissions).

Recent Service

2026
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Chair
2025
Diversity, Inclusion, & Accessibility Chair
2025
Technical Program Committee Member
CCN
2025
Co-organizer
2025
Co-organizer
2025
Co-organizer
2024—
Action Editor
2022—
Area Chair
2022—2026
Director