Jiahui Peng 彭嘉慧

I study the neural basis of singing behavior in songbirds, asking how neural circuits learn, maintain, and execute precise motor sequences. In my PhD work with Carlos Lois at Caltech, I use neural imaging in freely singing zebra finches to investigate how neural code of song are more variable — and more interesting — than previously assumed by the field.

I am broadly interested in the computational principles of the brain and, ultimately, in a general theory of intelligence shared by carbon and silicon beings.

Before Caltech, I studied single-cell epigenomics with Xiaoliang Sunney Xie at Peking University.

I grew up in Xi'an, China.