Amanda Buch is a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. She obtained her B.A. in Biophysics from Columbia University in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University.

During her postdoctoral research, Buch has developed cluster-aware embedding algorithms using machine learning and convex optimization in collaboration with Logan Grosenick. During her Ph.D. with Conor Liston, she pioneered an imaging transcriptomics approach for biological subtyping and identified four subtypes of autism spectrum disorder linked to distinct molecular pathways. Prior to her Ph.D., Buch worked with Daphna Shohamy at Columbia University, where she investigated the neural correlates of cognitive flexibility in patients with Parkinson’s disease using task-based functional MRI; with Vincent Ferrera and Elisa Konofagou at Columbia University, where she studied noninvasive focused ultrasound neuromodulation; and with Viviane Tabar and Lorenz Studer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she studied the efficacy of iPSC-derived dopamine grafts for Parkinson’s disease. Her research and science communication have been featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Dana Foundation, and Story Collider.