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Brandon joins as an MMath student

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

05-30-2025
Summer researcher, Ben

Ben will be simulating and analyzing synchronization of audience clapping.

05-08-2025
Welcome Nahal

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

05-07-2025
Alina joins us for the summer as a research assistant

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

05-05-2025
This is Michelle, undergrad research assistant

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

05-03-2025
Priya joins the lab for the summer

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

04-27-2025
Papers accepted at Canada AI and CogSci

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

04-15-2025
Alicia presents her research at NICE 2025

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

03-25-2025
The Neurocognitive Computing Lab heads to Telluride

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

02-20-2025
Meet Nicolas - Undergrad Researcher

Nicolas will be working on decoding from adapting spiking neurons

01-20-2025
A freshly-minted doctor

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

01-13-2025
Nicole wins Best New Neuromorph!

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

11-26-2024
Jeremy wins a TA award!

Jeremy Zheng received one of 5 Teaching Assistant awards

09-23-2024
BEST PAPER Award at ICANN!

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

09-20-2024
We made the cover of Neural Computation

Our paper on spiking phasor VSAs is published in Neural Computation

09-06-2024
Introducing Nicholas, part-time researcher

Nicholas Jiang will be implementing spiking phasors in Nengo this fall

09-03-2024
William finishes his masters degree

Congratulations to William for completing his MMath degree

08-23-2024
Jeff's interview on X Spaces

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

07-04-2024
Papers accepted at Canada AI Conference

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

05-06-2024
Welcome to the lab, Alicia

Alicia will be doing research with us for the summer.

05-06-2024
Say hello to our new member, Bing

Bing started his PhD in Jan 2024.

01-08-2024
William joins our team

Say hi to William from Montreal.

08-25-2023
Paper accepted at ICONS 2023

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

06-30-2023
Paper accepted in Frontiers in Neuroscience

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

06-25-2023
Interview on the Thought Process podcast

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

06-16-2023
Jeff gives keynote lecture at Midnight Sun VSA Workshop

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

06-16-2023
Jeff speaks to INRC

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

05-02-2023
Two papers accepted at ICCM

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

04-30-2023
Jeff's back!

Prof. Orchard is back from his sabbatical in Australia

02-02-2023
Welcome to Kathryn

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

01-07-2023
Mallory Graduated

Congratulations to Mallory Snow who finished her MMath degree.

12-08-2022
Jeff is on sabbatical

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

08-01-2022
Success in ICCM

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

06-01-2022
CogSci Here We Come!

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

05-20-2022
Research internship at Huawei

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

05-11-2022
An internship at Apple

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

03-10-2022
Welcome to Zahra Sheikhbahaee

Zahra will be working on AI algorithms of altruism.

03-07-2022
Welcome to Sherman Siu

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

12-20-2021
Welcome to Prof. Shi-Yuan Han

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

12-07-2021
Jeff on Unlabelled Unstructured podcast

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

10-26-2021
PyData Global: Lightning Talk on NLP xAI

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

09-30-2021
Brian is Netflix Famous!

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

09-09-2021
Welcome new lab members

Say hello to some new faces joining our lab

08-31-2021
Award of Excellence: Mallory Snow

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

06-01-2021
Internship for Nolan

Nolan is doing a research internship at Huawei

05-06-2021
Alex is done!

Alex successfully completed his MMath degree.

04-23-2021
Say hi to Mallory

We welcome the Lab's newest graduate student

01-05-2021
Teaching a robot

Alex is using reinforcement learning to teach a robot to reach

01-04-2021
Speaking at NeuRIG

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

11-27-2020
Writeup feature for CS home page

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

10-26-2020
Neuroscience: A computational problem

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

09-29-2020
PLOS ONE Paper Published

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

08-18-2020
Wei Sun Thesis

Congratulations to Wei Sun for finishing his Masters degree.

08-17-2020
Publication: Neural Computation

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

08-16-2020
Accepted: IEEE Trans. Cognitive and Developmental Systems

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

12-12-2019
NeurIPS Workshop Paper

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

10-31-2019
Journal Paper Accepted

Our paper was accepted for publication in IEEE TSMC-Systems

09-29-2019
Journal Paper Accepted

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

09-24-2019
Interviewed for 'Why Code?'

Interview about why coding is fun and important

12-05-2017
Best Paper Award at ICONIP

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

11-02-2017
Debate: Is the mind a machine?

Jeff debated Matt Dickerson of Middlebury College.

09-28-2017