Tanish Mendki

Biography

Tanish is a 3rd year undergraduate student at UCSB double majoring in Psychological & Brain Sciences + Statistics & Data Science. He joined the VIU lab in 2023. He's originally from the Bay Area, and loves reading and watching sci-fi content. When he's not in the lab, he's usually binging some arbitrary sitcom on Netflix or watching a Christopher Nolan movie.  

Research

Tanish is interested in the intersection of Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Science/Data Science in the form of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Specifically, his research interests are focused on utilizing and developing computational methods to investigate the human brain and human cognition. In the long term, he would like to contribute to building intelligent systems that not only emulate, but surpass human cognitive capabilities.