Publications
Papers, proceedings, and presentations
Work on AI alignment, AI for health and medicine, computational neuroscience, visual perception, and comparisons between biological and artificial intelligent systems.
2026
Reinforcement Learning Towards Broadly and Persistently Beneficial Models
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Rahul K. Arora, Khaled Saab, Ali Malik, Mikhail Trofimov, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Johannes Heidecke, Karan Singhal
OpenAI Alignment Blog
2026
HealthBench Professional: Evaluating Large Language Models on Real Clinician Chats
Rebecca Soskin Hicks, Mikhail Trofimov, Dominick Lim, Rahul K. Arora, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Preston Bowman, Michael Sharman, Chi Tong, Kavin Karthik, Arnav Dugar, Akshay Jagadeesh, Khaled Saab, Johannes Heidecke, Ashley Alexander, Nate Gross, Karan Singhal
OpenAI
2025
Monkey See, Model Knew: Large Language Models Accurately Predict Visual Brain Responses in Humans and Non-Human Primates
Colin Conwell, Emalie McMahon, Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken, Saloni Sharma, Jacob S. Prince, George A. Alvarez, Talia Konkle, Margaret Livingstone, Leyla Isik
bioRxiv
2025
Contrast Inversion Reveals Hierarchical Asymmetries of Contrast Processing in Biological and Artificial Vision
Sohrab Najafian, Giordano Ramos-Traslosheros, Akshay Vivek Jagadeesh, Margaret Livingstone
NeurIPS Symmetry and Geometry Workshop
2025
Parametric Control Along the Encoding Axes of IT Neurons Uncovers Hidden Differences in Model-Brain Alignment
Jacob S. Prince, Binxu Wang, Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Thomas Fel, Emily Lo, George A. Alvarez, Margaret S. Livingstone, Talia Konkle
CCN
2024
Face Cells Encode Object Parts More Than Facial Configuration of Illusory Faces
Saloni Sharma, Kasper Vinken, Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Margaret S. Livingstone
Nature Communications
2024
Assessing equivariance in visual neural representations
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Will Xiao, Margaret S. Livingstone
CCN
2024
Texture bias in primate ventral visual cortex and deep neural network models of vision
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Margaret S. Livingstone
ICLR ReAlign
2022
Texture-like representation of objects in human visual cortex
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Justin L. Gardner
PNAS
2021
Attention enhances category representations across the brain with strengthened residual correlations to ventral temporal cortex
Arielle S. Keller, Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Lior Bugatus, Leanne M. Williams, Kalanit Grill-Spector
NeuroImage
2021
V1 and IT representations are directly accessible to human visual perception
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Justin L. Gardner
NeurIPS SVRHM
2016
Setting and changing feature priorities in visual short-term memory
Zampeta Kalogeropoulou, Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Sven Ohl, Martin Rolfs
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review