“We’re all stumbling in the dark and that makes for some very interesting collisions.”
Marty Rubin
About Fylaktis Fylaktou
Fylaktis Fylaktou is a postdoctoral researcher at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior,
working in the Khalsa Lab. His research focuses on the gut-brain interface, interoception, and computational
psychiatry, using technologies like body surface gastric mapping (BSGM) and machine learning to classify and
phenotype psychiatric conditions.
His recent work includes building ML classifiers that distinguish anorexia nervosa patients from healthy controls
with 92% accuracy, identifying distinct physiological subtypes through unsupervised clustering, and investigating
disrupted heart-brain coupling in PTSD among 9/11 first responders.
He holds a PhD in Molecular Medicine from Hofstra University and an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He has published in journals including the International
Journal of Neural Systems, Bioelectronic Medicine, and IJERPH, and serves as a peer reviewer.
In April 2026, he is presenting at the Neurogastroenterology and Motility (NCM) conference in Kobe, Japan, on
ML-based classification and clustering of gastric electrophysiology data.
Outside of research, he builds AI-powered tools at the intersection of neuroscience and technology, trains
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and is working to become the leading AI voice in Greece.
Based in Los Angeles.
1 Book – 1 Week – 1 Year
I have a goal of reading a book every week every year. I share the best of them along with some thoughts.
Best Book of this year : Antkind – Charlie Kaufman
Photography
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange
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