Zaid Zada

I'm a third-year PhD Candidate at Princeton University working with Uri Hasson. My background education is in computer science (B.S., JMU) and machine learning (M.S., Georgia Tech).

I study language processing in the brain during natural settings using machine learning. My research focuses on how people and the brain uses language to communicate and understand each other. I'm broadly interested in the connection between how the brain and machines process language, and how we can use both to improve our understanding of the other.

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Deep speech-to-text models capture the neural basis of spontaneous speech in everyday conversations language processing in the human brain

Ariel Goldstein, Haocheng Wang*, Leonard Niekerken*, Zaid Zada*, Bobbi Aubrey*, Tom Sheffer*, Samuel Nastase*, Harshvardhan Gazula, Mariano Schain, Aditi Singh, Aditi Rao, Gina Choe, Catherine Kim, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Sasha Devore, Patricia Dugan, Avinatan Hassidim, Michael Brenner, Yossi Matias, Orrin Devinsky, Adeen Flinker, Uri Hasson

Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models

Ariel Goldstein, Zaid Zada*, Eliav Buchnik*, Mariano Schain*, Amy Price*, Bobbi Aubrey*, Samuel Nastase*, Amir Feder*, Dotan Emanuel*, Alon Cohen*, Aren Jansen, Harshvardhan Gazula, Gina Choe, Aditi Rao, Catherine Kim, Colton Casto, Lora Fanda, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Lucia Melloni, Roi Reichart, Sasha Devore, Adeen Flinker, Liat Hasenfratz, Omer Levy, Avinatan Hassidim, Michael Brenner, Yossi Matias, Kenneth A. Norman, Orrin Devinsky & Uri Hasson

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