Anuja Negi
I’m a PhD candidate at Denizens Lab, TU Berlin advised by Fatma Deniz. Currently, I am a visiting researcher at the Gallant Lab, UC Berkeley.
My research focuses on aligning language representations in brains and models, using one to better understand and improve the other.
Before this, I did my masters in Computational Neuroscience at BCCN Berlin. During this time, I was fortunate to work with Alexandre Gramfort, Stefan Haufe, and Petra Ritter. I graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from VIT Chennai.
I’m passionate about science communication and outreach. Currently, I’m organizing SoapBox Science Berlin and the German Neuroscience Olympiad.
On the lookout for an internship — summer/fall 2026, any leads are welcome!
news
| Oct 14, 2025 |
Honored to be invited to serve as reviewer for Transactions on Machine Learning Research Journal (TMLR). 
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| Oct 12, 2025 | Got awarded NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award, yay! |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Gave a talk on aligning language representations in brains & models at Laura Gwilliam’s lab at Stanford! |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Presented a poster on inducing bias from bilingual brains into language models at Berkeley Neuroscience Conference, Lake Tahoe! |
| Sep 18, 2025 |
Our paper on brain-informed-fine-tuning gets accepted to NeurIPS!
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| Sep 13, 2025 | Presented a poster on context affects on brain-language model alignment at SNL25, Washington DC! |
| Aug 15, 2025 |
Received the DAAD-IFI grant for a research visit to UC Berkeley/ICSI! 
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| Aug 14, 2025 | Presented a poster on fine-tuning language models with brain data at CCN, Amsterdam! |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Presented a poster on semantic representation with varying context in the brain at the Mind Body Brain symposium, Berlin! |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Presented a poster on semantic representation in the brain during language comprehension at SNL24, Brisbane! |
| Sep 2, 2024 | Presented poster on semantic representations with varying context at the Neuro-AI-Talks, Osnabrück! |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Presented a poster on noise misspecification in M/EEEG inverse methods at OHBM, Seoul! |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Presented poster and gave a talk on the BSI-Zoo at the Neural Traces, Berlin! |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Presented a poster on TMS-evoked responses in AD at SfN, Washington D.C.! |
| Oct 1, 2023 |
Started my PhD! 
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| Sep 27, 2023 | Presented a poster at the Bernstein Conference 2023! |
| Aug 2, 2023 |
Graduated with a masters in Computational Neuroscience from BCCN, Berlin! 
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| Jun 24, 2023 |
Helped organise the annual Soapbox Science event in Berlin! 
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| Jun 17, 2023 |
Speaker at the Science Slam in Long Night of Sciences in Berlin! 
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| Dec 17, 2022 | Attended the International Symposium on nTMS in Neurosurgery and Neuromodulation! |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Attendee and volunteer at the Bernstein Conference 2022! |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Started working as a student research assistant at the Brain Simulation Section! |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Presented poster and participated in AI4SIP at Paris-Saclay University! |
| Jun 13, 2022 |
Contributor at Google Summer of Code 2022 with INCF! 
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| Jun 10, 2022 |
Paper gets accepted to NeuroImage, DOI! 
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| Jun 10, 2022 | Finished my second lab rotation under Dr. Petra Ritter at the Brain Simulation Section! |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Finished my first lab rotation under Dr. John Dylan Haynes at the Haynes Lab! |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Started working as a student research assistant at the Brain and Data Science Group. |
| Oct 1, 2020 |
Started my masters at BCCN, Berlin!
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| Jun 30, 2020 |
Completed my bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering at VIT, India!
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