Samuel Debray

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PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience working at UNICOG under the supervision of Prof. Stanislas Dehaene. I started my PhD in september 2023, when I finished my studies at ÉNS Paris-Saclay.

I have a background in mathematics and computer science and my main interests lie cognitive neuroscience, and especially in the relations between AI and the brain, and in the way mathematics are processed in the brain. I am also interested in computational models broadly speaking, and their applications to study brain and behaviour.

Apart from science, I enjoy cooking and practicing Brazilian Jiu Jistu.

Projects

Research Year Abroad — still ongoing

I spent a year in Amsterdam working with Dr. Katrin Schulz at Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. We studied the ability of large language models to reason with causal conditionals.

Here are my thesis and the slides of defense.

Master (M2) in Cognitive Sciences Internship

See the dedicated page. You can also have a look to the handout.

Master (M1) in Computer Science Internship

I did my M1 internship under the (remote) supervision of Prof. Glynn Winskel and Dr. Simon Castellan. I worked on concurrent games and their relation with semantics and logic.

Here are my thesis and the slides of defense.

Others

I wrote a mini-paper on the Rational Speech Act framework for a super-semantics course at CogMaster.

Here is the report (in French) of my L3 internship on a formalisation of first-order logic in Coq under the supervision of Dr. Pierre Letouzey.

Students in Classes Préparatoires are required to conduct a small bibliographic project. Mine tackled elliptic curve cryptography. Here are the presentation and the associated notes (in French).

Curriculum

You can find my full CV in English and en français.

Diplomas

ÉNS Paris-Saclay Diploma (2023)
Computer Science major, International Research track
Master in Cognitive Sciences (2022)
École Normale Supérieure, magna cum laude
Bachelor in Theoretical Computer Science (2020)
École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, summa cum laude
IELTS Academic (2022)
Score 8.5/9, C2 level

Teaching

I am a teaching assistant in mathematics and computer science at IUT Orsay. I am involved in various classes, such as programming, probabilities and numerical analysis.

Before that, I used to give oral examination in mathematics to students in first year of Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles. Below are the exercise sheets (in French) I used.

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