Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez

Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Ph.D. Senior Director of Machine Learning OnCorps sebastian.suarez at oncorps.io

About

I was a research associate with Brad Love at University College London (UCL; from 2018 to 2021). During my PhD, I worked under the supervision of Brad Love and Tali Sharot also at UCL. Previous collaborations also include Benedetto De Martino and Cass Sunstein. I have worked on various different topics such as heuristics and biases in decision-making as well as on models of similarity for neuroimaging data and electro-physiological data. Other efforts include linking decision heuristics to principled statistical models and analysis of fMRI data related to subjective value and confidence. I currently work for OnCorps as Director of Machine Learning.

Publications

Book

• Bobadilla-Suarez, S. (2025). Energetically Coherent Computation: A computationally adjacent theory of phenomenal consciousness. draft manuscript (v0.5.0).

Articles

• Zhang, X. Y., Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Luo, X., Lemonari, M., Brincat, S. L., Siegel, M., ... & Love, B. C. (2023). Adaptive stretching of representations across brain regions and deep learning model layers. bioRxiv preprint (under review at Nature Communications).

• Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Jones, M. & Love, B. C. (2021). Robust priors for regularized regression. Cognitive Psychology.

aRxiv preprint:



• Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Guest, O. & Love, B. C. (2020). Subjective value and decision entropy are jointly encoded by aligned gradients across the human brain. Communications Biology.

bioRxiv preprint:



• Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., ... & Schonberg, T. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature.

bioRxiv preprint:



• Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Ahlheim, C., Mehrotra, A., Panos, A., & Love, B. C. (2019). Measures of neural similarity. Computational Brain & Behavior.

bioRxiv preprint:



• Bobadilla-Suarez, S. & Love, B. C. (2018). Fast or frugal, but not both: Decision heuristics under time pressure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(1), 24-33.




• Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Sunstein, C. R. & Sharot, T. (2017). The intrinsic value of choice: The propensity to under-delegate in the face of potential gains and losses. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 54(3), 187-202.

SSRN preprint:



• De Martino, B., Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Noguchi, T., Sharot, T., & Love, B. C. (2017). Social information is integrated into value and confidence judgments according to its reliability. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(25), 6066-6074.




• Sunstein, C.R., Bobadilla-Suarez, S., Lazzaro, S., & Sharot, T. (2017). How people update beliefs about climate change: Good news and bad news. Cornell Law Review, 102(6).

SSRN preprint:



• Bobadilla-Suarez, S. & Lopez-Avila, A. (2014). [Perceived and imagined body image distortion: a possible factor for obesity and overweight in Mexicans]. Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 52 (4), 408-414.

Conference Proceedings

• Alba Krasovsky, R., Bobadilla Suarez, S., & Schwarz, D. (2018). Social Preference of Building Materials: Decision-Making towards Low Carbon Housing Constructions. In PLEA 2018: Smart and Healthy Within the Two-Degree Limit: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture., Volume 2 (pp. 778-783).

• Bobadilla-Suarez, S. & Love, B. C. Measures of neural similarity. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2017. Archived at CCN 2017

Blog posts

• Model-based fMRI giveth and taketh away (November 18, 2019). With Olivia Guest and Bradley Love.

• Some thoughts on open review (January 10, 2019).

Press

• 200 Researchers, 5 Hypotheses, No Consistent Answers (December 6, 2019). Wired.

• Are you a control freak or a delegator? (September 3, 2017). The Guardian.

• How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences (May 31, 2017). Science Daily.

• Why Facts Don’t Unify Us (September 2, 2016). The New York Times. By Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein.

Video

• Neural similarity in BOLD response and multi-unit recordings (October 27, 2020). 12 minute talk for Neuromatch 3.0 in collaboration with Lemonari, M., Brincat, S. L., Siegel, M., Miller, E. K., & Love, B. C.

45 minute version (CitAI Seminar, November 25, 2020)