About Me

  • Hi, I’m Dilay! I’m currently a first year PhD student in the Adaptive Decisions Lab led by Prof Abhishek Banerjee at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar.

  • I moved to the UK in late 2019 for my undergraduate studies; I went to UCL (2019-2023), then Imperial (2023-2024), before landing in Oxford in October 2024). I am originally from France, where I obtained my French Scientific Baccalaureat (2019).

  • In my free time, I like writing; I mostly write short-form prose, and sometimes poetry. Nothing out in the world too publicly at the moment!

PhD Introduction

  • Currently shaping it as we go! I’m interested in how neural circuits support adaptive decision-making. My work combines behavioural analysis, neural data processing, and computational modelling to understand how patterns of brain activity relate to learning, action selection, and changes in behaviour over time. I develop reproducible analysis pipelines for mouse behavioural and neural datasets, and use models that take behaviour as structured input, including trial-resolution task histories, to predict future choices and link population-level neural activity to task structure and behavioural strategy. More broadly, I am interested in using computational approaches to bridge experimental neuroscience, cognition, and intelligent behaviour.

Location

  • Current: Oxford, UK
  • Affiliation: The Queen’s College and the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford

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