Postdoctoral Fellow · UT Austin

Zeyuan Ye

My research develops generative modeling and statistical methods for high-dimensional data, with a focus on flow matching, representational geometry, deep neural networks, and computational neuroscience.

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Portrait of Zeyuan Ye

About

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin, working with Prof. Xue-Xin Wei (2026–present). I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis, where I studied computational neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Ralf Wessel (2021–2026).

Prior to joining WashU, I worked with Prof. Changsong Zhou at Hong Kong Baptist University (2020–2021). Before that, I received my undergraduate training in physics at Sichuan University (2016–2020).

I also build small tools and explore research ideas for fun—see my projects.

Recent updates

All updates
Sep 25, 2026 Our new preprint, “A Flow Matching Framework for Neural Representational Dissimilarity”, is now available on arXiv.
Sep 10, 2026 Released Clipboard Upload v0.3.0, a Windows tool that uploads clipboard screenshots and files to an SSH server with Ctrl+Alt+U and copies their remote paths back to the clipboard. Download the release.
Apr 01, 2026 Started as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin, working with Prof. Xue-Xin Wei.
Feb 28, 2026 Successfully defended my Ph.D. in Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, advised by Prof. Ralf Wessel.
Aug 19, 2025 Our paper, “Speed modulations in grid cell information geometry”, was published in Nature Communications.

Selected publications

All publications

  1. A Flow Matching Framework for Neural Representational Dissimilarity

    Zeyuan Ye, Xue-Xin Wei arXiv preprint, 2026 PDF

  2. The representational geometry of out-of-distribution generalization in primary visual cortex and artificial neural networks

    Zeyuan Ye, Ralf Wessel bioRxiv, 2025 PDF GitHub

  3. Brain-like border ownership signals support prediction of natural videos

    Zeyuan Ye, Ralf Wessel, Tom P. Franken iScience, 2025 PDF GitHub

  4. Speed modulations in grid cell information geometry

    Zeyuan Ye, Ralf Wessel Nature Communications, 2025 PDF GitHub

  5. The effects of the post-delay epochs on working memory error reduction

    Zeyuan Ye, Haoran Li, Liang Tian, Changsong Zhou PLOS Computational Biology, 2025 PDF GitHub