Noah Cowan

PhD Student
at Stanford University

Department of Statistics

Research Interests

My research focuses on building reliable and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems. I build methods for using synthetic data to help us understand brains both in vivo and in silico. Currently, that work involves building and interpreting generative models for rat behavior, human speech Brain-Computer Interfaces, and safe Artificial Intelligence.

News
September 2026
My work "Online Bayesian Recalibration of Brain–Computer Interfaces with Language Model Potentials" was accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Come meet up with me in Sydney!
October 2025
Awarded an Amazon Core AI Fellowship to support my PhD studies.
September 2025
Awarded a Stanford Human-Centered AI Data Science Scholarship to support my PhD studies.
July 2025
June 2025
Named a Data Science for Social Good Technical Fellow to help students apply data science to projects intended to benefit society.
September 2023
Started my PhD in Statistics at Stanford University.