Sanjoy Dasgupta

The paper shows that sparse, random sampling of self peptides in the thymus is sufficient for T cell tolerance to most peripheral self peptides, supported by experimental data and machine learning analysis.

The paper proposes a neural circuit theory for counting stimulus occurrences, showing it exists in insect mushroom bodies and may be conserved in mammals.

The paper describes how the fly's olfactory circuit solves a similarity search problem using a novel algorithm inspired by locality-sensitive hashing, improving performance on benchmark datasets.