Jakob Troidl

Jakob Troidl is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Harvard University, as advised by Prof. Hanspeter Pfister. He also works in the lab of Dr. Srinivas Turaga at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia, as a visiting researcher. Jakob is broadly interested in data visualization and applied machine learning, especially with applications in connectomics. His research focuses on building scalable interactive visual analysis tools and representation learning approaches to analyze the hidden architecture of the brain. Jakob received an M.Sc. in visual computing in 2021 and a B.Sc. (with Honors) in medical informatics in 2019, both from TU Wien, Austria.