SUNNY LIU

I'm a builder, storyteller, and researcher hyperfocused on AI and cognitive neuroscience — usually somewhere between prototyping, overthinking, and shipping.

I was born in Chongqing and grew up on the beaches of Vancouver. Currently, I'm an undergrad at Columbia in New York City. So far I've been an actress, a content creator, and a partner at an edtech startup that recently got acquired.

I build a lot and dabble in a bit of everything — UI, backend, product strat — usually somewhere between prototyping, overthinking, and shipping. What I hyperfocus on is AI and cognitive neuroscience: I want to understand how the brain works using computational models (deep nets especially).

Right now I'm researching representational geometry — how internal representations in DNNs and brains overlap.

PRACTICE
Work & Research
Capital V Strategies
PR/Comms Strategist · starting Jun 2026
Columbia Visual Inference Lab
Research Assistant · starting Jul 2026
Coconote — AI Notetaker
Partner & Growth · Jul 2025 → Nov 2025
Education
Columbia University
BA Cog Sci & Business · expected May 2027
Elsewhere
NOW
  • 01Researching at the Columbia Visual Inference Lab — representational geometry, DNNs vs. brains.
  • 02Interning in PR/Comms at Capital V Strategies.
  • 03Prototyping simulative agents — digital twins and cognitive RAG architectures.
  • 04Taking Art Hum + Music Hum at Columbia this summer.
THINGS I THINK ABOUT
  • computational theory of mind
  • signal-to-noise ratio
  • alienation (marx)
  • first principles thinking
  • isomorphisms
  • simulation theory
  • digital twins
  • simulative agents
  • topology & homomorphisms
  • interpretability
  • representational geometry