Ashley Chen

I am a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Nancy M. Amato at UIUC. My research is part of the MiV Project where I focus on using foundation models to understand how to interact with and control biological neural networks.

Papers with Parasol Lab:

• Position: It Is Time We Test Neural Computation In Vitro

  by Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Nancy M. Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), July 2025

• A primer on in vitro biological neural networks

  by Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Sarah Dowden, Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger
  NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Machine Learning with new Compute Paradigms, December 2024