# Chih-Hao Hsu — Personal Website

> This site documents my research interests and writing at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and brain-computer interfaces.

## About
- [About / Home](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/): Bio, research interests, and contact info for Chih-Hao (Howard) Hsu, CS undergraduate at National Taiwan University.

## Publications
- [Publications](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/publications): Research publications by Chih-Hao Hsu.

## Blog Posts
- [ChronoClones: From VR Game to Speculative Fiction](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/chronoclones): A VR puzzle game where players solve multi-person challenges alone by collaborating with clones of their past selves through time loops and a speculative fiction inspired by it.
- [Manifold Steering Reveals the Shared Geometry of Neural Network Representation and Behavior](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/manifold-steering-shared-geometry): Review of the paper "Manifold Steering Reveals the Shared Geometry of Neural Network Representation and Behavior."
- [Condition-Dependent Brain-Model Alignment between Whisper and the Human Speech Network under Acoustic Degradation](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/condition-dependent-whisper-brain-alignment): Review of paired works on how acoustic degradation reweights cortical and ASR processing, measured via layer-wise alignment between Whisper-Tiny and fMRI.
- [A Reflection on Taking Chances](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/reflection-on-taking-chances): A reflection sparked by a coffee chat.
- [Steering Large Language Models using Conceptors](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/conceptor-steering-llms): Review of the paper "Steering Large Language Models using Conceptors: Improving Addition-Based Activation Engineering."
- [Parallelized Hierarchical Connectome: A Spatiotemporal Recurrent Framework for Spiking State-Space Models](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/parallelized-hierarchical-connectome-spiking-ssm): Review of the paper "Parallelized Hierarchical Connectome: A Spatiotemporal Recurrent Framework for Spiking State-Space Models."
- [EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/evaaa-virtual-environment): Review of the paper "EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents."
- [The Mind's Transformer: Computational Neuroanatomy of LLM-Brain Alignment](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/minds-transformer-computational-neuroanatomy): Review of the paper "The Mind's Transformer: Computational Neuroanatomy of LLM-Brain Alignment."
- [Mechanistic Interpretability for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/mech-interp-for-steering-vla): Review of the paper "Mechanistic Interpretability for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models."
- [Unveiling Theory of Mind in LLMs](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/unveiling-theory-of-mind-in-llms): Review of the paper "Unveiling Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: A Parallel to Single Neurons in the Human Brain."
- [OTSea Staking - Lost 26k Due to Logic Flaw](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog/defi-incident-otsea-staking): DeFi security incident where OTSeaStaking contract was exploited due to a memory-vs-storage logic flaw, resulting in 26k loss.

## Navigation
- [All Posts](https://howard-digital-brain.vercel.app/blog): Filterable list of all blog posts.
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