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Journal Club / Lab Meeting:

Bayesian Models of Perception and Cognition -- (some) Mondays at 5 pm, IF 2.33.
Group Members:

  • Nikos Gekas (DTC PhD student 2011-)
    Learning complex expectations, in collaboration with Máté Lengyel
Collaborations:

    Second supervisor for :
  • Aistis Stankevicius (DTC PhD student 2012-) with Prof Douglas Steele. Bayesian models of optimism and depression.
Join us.

I am very keen on recruiting excellent students to work with me, at the Undergrad, MSc, PhD or postdoc level.
  • We have a large number of PhD studentships for UK students (Or EU students who have lived in the UK for more than 3 years). Apply to the doctoral training center program (DTC).

  • For other students, you can apply to the EUROSPIN Erasmus Mundus joint doctoral program in Neuroinformatics, which I am involved in. This program is a partnership with Universities in Sweden (Stockholm - KTH), Germany (Freiburg) and India (Bangalore- NCBS) and involves mobility between partners sites.

  • Check also the links on the pages of Informatics or ANC.

  • I am happy to help students apply for postdoc fellowships to work with us, for eg. Newton Fellowships .

  • French students can check fellowships from the Fyssen Fundation. Also, at the MSc and PhD level: Bourses Eiffel. I'm potentially interested in co-supervisions with a French laboratory (see the entente cordiale scheme , for eg).
Please contact me if you are interested. I have a few projects available that I would be happy to discuss.
Alumni:
  • Matteo Colombo (with Andy Clark), PhD student. Social Norms and the Brain. Matteo is now a postdoc at Tilburg University.

  • David Reichert, DTC PhD student (with Amos Storkey ). Deep Boltzmann Machines as models of perception in the visual cortex. David is now a postdoc at Brown University, working with Thomas Serre.

  • Matthew Chalk (DTC PhD student 2008-)
    Attention, Expectations and Bayesian Priors, in collaboration with Alex Thiele and Aaron Seitz . Matty is now a postdoc at the Group for Neural Theory, ENS, Paris working with Sophie Deneve
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  • Betty Tijms, DTC PhD student 2008-2012 (with Stephen Lawrie).
    Quantifying the structure of the brain in health and disease.
    Betty is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Alzheimer centre, department of Neurology, VUmc, Amsterdam.

  • Clemens Korndorfer (visiting student - Autumn 2011)
    Effect of reward on motion perception. Clemens is now back in Osnabruck.

  • Aistis Stankevicius (UG4 student - 2010-2011)
    Optimism in decision making, in collaboration with Quentin Huys. Aistis is now a DTC student.

  • Nikos Gekas (DTC MSc student - Summer 2011)
    Learning Complex Priors, in collaboration with Aaron Seitz. Nikos is now a DTC student working in my group.

  • Rimvydas Naktinis (MSc student - Summer 2011)
    Center-surround modulations and the "unaware" decoder.

  • Wei Cao (MSc student - Summer 2011)
    Modeling the slow speed prior.

  • Dagmara Panas (DTC MSc student - Summer 2010)
    Learning expectations and the specificity of Bayesian priors. Daga is now a DTC student working with Matthias Henning.

  • Elizabeth Bell (DTC MSc student - Summer 2010)
    Computational Neuroscience of Eating Disorders. Lizzie is now a DTC student working with Helen Pain.

  • Cornelius Mun Chiew Lee (Msc student - Summer 2010)
    Models of Addiction.

  • Panagiotis Malliakas (Msc student - Summer 2010)
    Models of Serotonin, in collaboration with Quentin Huys

  • Marco Muscat (Msc studen - Summer 2010)
    Neural Models of Bayesian Priors.

  • Aditi Kalra (UG4 2009-2010)
    Optimism in Decision-making, in collaboration with Quentin Huys

  • Stephane Clery (MSc student - Summer 09)
    Neuromodulation and Attention, in collaboration with Boris Gutkin.
    Stephane is now pursuing a PhD in visual psychophysics in Saint Andrews with Julie Harris

  • Amalia Papanikolaou (Msc student -- Summer 09)
    Reinforcement learning with spiking neurons.
    Amalia is now pursuing a PhD in Tuebingen.

  • Vincent Valton (MSc student - Summer 09)
    Encoding and Decoding in multiple dimensions.
    Vincent is now a DTC student here.

  • Hugh Pastoll (MSc student - Summer 08)
    Mechanisms of perceptual learning.
    Hugh is now a DTC student, pursuing a PhD with Matt Nolan.

  • Martin O'Reilly (MSc student - Summer 08)
    Mechanisms of visual adaptation.
    Martin is now a DTC student at Complex, UCL.

  • Stuart Yarrow (MSc student - Summer 08)
    Information measures and neural coding.
    Stuart is now a DTC student here.

  • Edward Challis (MSc student - Summer 07)
    Information measures and neural coding. (Xerox prize for the best AI MSC dissertation !)
    Ed is pursuing a PhD in machine learning at UCL.

  • Kyriakos Manolis (UG4 student 08-09)
    Models of Decision-Making

  • Grigorios Sotiropoulos (UG4 08-09)
    Hyperacuity and Perceptual learning in collaboration with Aaron Seitz.
    Greg is now a DTC student here.

  • Guillaume Hennequin (MSc student - Summer 07)
    Perceptual learning and population codes. Guillaume is pursuing a PhD at EPFL with W. Gerstner.