Jenelle Feather.

Jenelle Feather

Assistant professor, Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

Jenelle Feather is assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she leads the Laboratory for Computational Perception. Her lab sits at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, investigating the complex neural patterns that underlie perception. By comparing computational models with biological systems, her work aims to uncover the fundamental principles of perception, identify where current AI diverges from human experience, and improve our models of the biological brain.

Prior to joining the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 2025, Feather was a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience. (The Flatiron Institute is funded by the Simons Foundation, The Transmitter’s parent organization.) She earned her Ph.D. in brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also completed her B.S. in physics and brain and cognitive sciences.

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