AmirHossein Yavari

I am a PhD student in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, advised by Prof. Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani. Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate studies in Mathematics and its Applications at Sharif University of Technology.

My research interests are centered on neural population coding and interpretable structure in population activity. I am interested in how groups of neurons represent sensory, behavioral, and task variables; how structure in those responses is organized across a population; and how sensitivity, variability, and response geometry constrain what can be inferred from neural activity.

I am also interested in how coding properties vary across brain areas, subjects, stimulus families, model architectures, and time. This direction connects with broader work in our group on brain dynamics, functional organization, and network-level structure, especially in settings where the stability of population-level measurements matters.