Our research aim is to uncover the computational and organizational mechanisms in the brain. For example, what function does feedback play in our brains, and how do our expectations influence our perceptions? We study these questions by modelling neural networks. Through computational experiments and mathematical analysis, we try to understand the neurological basis of perception, cognition, and behaviour.
The lab is in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and affiliated with the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience.
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.
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
Come to the Canadian Conference on AI to see lab members present their research.
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 LuleƄ, Sweden.
Listen to Jeff being interviewed on the new podcast, Thought Process.
We will be giving two talks at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling in Amsterdam in July 2023.
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.
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.
Mallory has been honoured with the MUN Grenfell Award of Excellence in both Computational Math and Physics
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
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
J Orchard, L Castricato, "Combatting Adversarial Inputs using a Predictive-Estimator Network", International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 7 pages, 2017.