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Congratulations are in order for Nolan's PhD defence.

This fall, she will continue a project on how audience members synchronize their clapping

After her summer research position, Alina has started her master's degree in the Neurocog Lab.

Sending out thank-you vibes to those that did research with us this summer.

Say hello to Brandon Cheng, who is starting his master's degree.

Ben will be simulating and analyzing synchronization of audience clapping.

Nahal will be doing research part-time over the summer, designing validation studies for our neural model of the basal ganglia.

She will design neural networks that accurately decode from populations of adapting neurons.

She'll be implementing a neural network that mimics a beat pattern.

Priya will be working full-time this summer as a researcher, working on computational models of the basal ganglia.

We have two papers to be presented at upcoming conferences. Well done Ehsan, William, and Jeremy!

We had a poster accepted at NICE, which was held in Heidelberg, Germany. Alicia presented the poster, and a 1-minute lightening talk.

Two lab members are organizing topic areas for the 2025 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop.

Nicolas will be working on decoding from adapting spiking neurons

Congratulations to Nicole, err... Dr. Dumont for successfully defending her thesis.

She got the award when she attended the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop.

Jeremy Zheng received one of 5 Teaching Assistant awards

Our paper was honoured with a ENNS Best Paper award at the Interational Conference on Artificial Neural Networks

Our paper on spiking phasor VSAs is published in Neural Computation

Nicholas Jiang will be implementing spiking phasors in Nengo this fall

Congratulations to William for completing his MMath degree

Jeff spent 2 hours answering questions on X(Twitter) Spaces

Alicia will be doing research with us for the summer.

Come to the Canadian Conference on AI to see lab members present their research.

Bing started his PhD in Jan 2024.

Say hi to William from Montreal.

Jeff and Russell will present a paper at ICONS 2023 in Santa Fe, NM.

Conratulations to Nicole, Mike, Chris and Jeff on their Frontiers in Neuroscience paper.

Jeff was invited to deliver a keynote presentation to the Midnight Sun VSA workshop in Luleå, Sweden.

Listen to Jeff being interviewed on the new podcast, Thought Process.

Jeff presented his recent work to the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community.

We will be giving two talks at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling in Amsterdam in July 2023.

Prof. Orchard is back from his sabbatical in Australia

Dr. Simone will be joining the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

Congratulations to Mallory Snow who finished her MMath degree.

Jeff will spend 6 months working with the ICNS at Western Sydney University in Australia

Some of our work will be presented at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling in July.

Students and postdocs in the lab will be presenting their work at the CogSci conference in July.

Ehsan will be working at Huawei, doing research to increase developer productivity using AI.

Michael Karras will be at Apple AI/ML this summer.

Zahra will be working on AI algorithms of altruism.

Sherman is working on how to use neural networks to help in video editing.

Dr. Shi-Yuan Han is a visiting scholar from the University of Jinan, China, until Dec 2022

'Unlabelled Unstructured' is a podcast by the UW Data Science Club.

Brian gave an industry-applied talk on Pointer Generator Networks for Legal Document Summarisation.

Brian took part in the Copper's Hill Cheese Rolling race, and a photo ended up on Netflix.

Say hello to some new faces joining our lab

Mallory has been honoured with the MUN Grenfell Award of Excellence in both Computational Math and Physics

Nolan is doing a research internship at Huawei

Alex successfully completed his MMath degree.

We welcome the Lab's newest graduate student

Alex is using reinforcement learning to teach a robot to reach

Jeff spoke about "Bridging between Computers and Cortex" to Lakehead University's Neuroscience Research Interest Group

Nolan's work (recently published in PLOS ONE) was featured by the Cheriton School of CS. It also garnered a shout-out on ACM TechNews

Jeff was featured in an imprint article entitled Neuroscience: A computational problem.

Nolan Shaw, Tyler Jackson, and Jeff Orchard had their paper published in PLOS ONE

Congratulations to Wei Sun for finishing his Masters degree.

My master's student, Wei Sun, and I published our work in the journal Neural Computation.

Lin Wang and I have another paper accepted, this one in IEEE Trans. Cognitive and Developmental Systems

We will be presenting a paper at the workshop Perception as Generative Reasoning

Our paper was accepted for publication in IEEE TSMC-Systems

Our paper on detecting water leaks using neural networks was accepted.

Interview about why coding is fun and important

J Orchard, L Castricato, "Combatting Adversarial Inputs using a Predictive-Estimator Network", International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 7 pages, 2017.

Jeff debated Matt Dickerson of Middlebury College.