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Michelangelo Naim

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Michelangelo Naim

Research Scientist II, Basis Research Institute

Michi Naim is a research scientist at Basis. He was previously an ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT working with Guangyu Robert Yang using AI to model the brain. He finished his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science under supervision of Misha Tsodyks, during which he spent some time at the Institute for Advanced Studies and at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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Position

  • Research Scientist II
    Basis Research Institute

Education

  • PhD, Physics
    Weizmann Institute of Science
  • BS/MS, Physics
    La Sapienza University

Previous Appointments

  • ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow
    MIT

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AutumnBench: World Model Learning in Humans and AI

July 17, 2025

We’re releasing a new version of Autumn with human baseline results, AI performance comparisons, and an interactive benchmark for world model discovery. This release includes the MARA protocol and provides a public platform for testing causal reasoning capabilities.