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