Jakob Troidl
I am currently an AI Scientist at HHMI Janelia Research Campus, where I am part of the AI@HHMI initiative. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University, where I was advised by Hanspeter Pfister. During my PhD, I was also working with Srini Turaga at HHMI Janelia as a visiting researcher and as a ML Fellow at E11.bio. I received my M. Sc. and B. Sc. degrees in Computer Science from TU Wien, Austria. I was born and raised in the beautiful town of Regensburg in Germany.
My research interests lie broadly in applied machine learning and data visualization, especially with applications in neuroscience. Specifically, I focus on building scalable interactive visual analysis tools and representation learning approaches to analyze the hidden architecture of the brain.
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| Jan 26, 2026 | 📢 I started as an AI Scientist at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. |
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| Nov 18, 2025 | 🎓 I defended my PhD. Here’s the recording. |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 📢 Three papers accepted to IEEE VIS 2025 and one paper accepted to MICCAI EMA! |
| Jun 06, 2025 | 💬 I presented our preprint on neuron shape reasoning at the Modeling and Analysis of Connectomes conference and at the Frontiers in NeuroAI symposium. |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 💬 CAVE is out in Nature Methods. Check the paper out here. |
| Mar 14, 2025 | 💬 I will join E11.bio this summer as a ML fellow to work on automated connectome proofreading. |
| Dec 21, 2024 | 💬 I gave a talk on automated connectome proofreading at E11.bio, TU Wien and Google Research. |
| Nov 24, 2024 | 📝 New preprint on automated proofreading and typing of connectomes using global neuron shape reasoning. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | 💬 I presented at the IEEE VIS Doctoral Colloquium in Florida (remote). |
