Prof. Nima Mesgarani — Research Profile
Columbia University · Electrical Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering (MS/PhD, PhD)
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026
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Prof. Nima Mesgarani at Columbia University Electrical Engineering lists Systems Biology and Neuroengineering, Signals, Information and Data as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Interpretable embeddings of speech explain and enhance the brain encoding performance of audio modelsNewPLoS Computational Biology · Oct 30
- Grammatical "grandmother neurons" are rare in LLMsPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 24
- Beyond the Stability--Plasticity Frontier in Streaming Target Speaker ExtractionPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 17
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