Maggie von Ebers

about

I'm a research engineer at UT Austin in in Dr. Xuexin Wei's BBC Lab, newly graduated from my master's program there.
I explored computational representations of space for my Master's thesis, which you can peruse here.

publications

"Cognitive maps from predictive vision" Nature Machine Intelligence News & Views

"Predicting the Effectiveness of Systematic Desensitization Through Virtual Reality for Mitigating Public Speaking Anxiety" ACM ICMI 2020

"Invariance and selectivity to spatial variables in deep neural networks and the brain" Very WIP.

I was also a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025 and AGI-25.

languages & skills

Python, C#, C++, Java, Matlab