Alexander MathisAlexander studied pure mathematics with a minor in logic and theory of science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. For his PhD also at LMU, he worked on optimal coding approaches to elucidate the properties of grid cells. As a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy at Harvard University and Prof. Matthias Bethge at Tuebingen AI, he decided to study olfactory behaviors such as odor-guided navigation, social behaviors and the cocktail party problem in mice. During this time, he increasingly got interested sensorimotor behaviors beyond olfaction and started working on proprioception, motor adaption, as well as computer vision tools for measuring animal behavior.
In his group, he is interested in elucidating how the brain gives rise to adaptive behavior. One of the major goals is to synthesize large datasets into computationally useful information. For those purposes, he develops algorithms and systems to analyze animal behavior (e.g. DeepLabCut), neural data, as well as creates experimentally testable computational models.
Mykhailo BatiukExpertise
Single cell and spatial genomics (wet/dry lab), glia, psychiatry, neuroscience
I obtained my PhD (2012-2018) in KU Leuven/VIB, Belgium where I investigated astrocyte heterogeneity using single cell transcriptomics. During this period I developed tools to acutely and specifically isolate astrocytes from adult brain and identified five astrocyte subtypes in the cortex and hippocampus of mouse brain expanding previous understanding of astrocyte variability.Following my PhD, I did my first post-doc in
Valerio ZerbiDr. Valerio Zerbi is a pioneer of preclinical magnetic resonance functional neuroimaging. At his lab at EPFL, Valerio and his team use functional MRI recordings in rodents in combination with neural modulation and computational approaches to study the mechanisms that link cellular activity to large-scale network (dys)function. His long-term ambition is to advance the development of personalised strategies based on imaging and artificial intelligence, for the diagnosis and prognosis of developmental brain disorders. Valerio is the recipient of the ETH Postdoctoral (2014), the Swiss National Science Foundation AMBIZIONE
(2017) and ECCELLENZA (2021) fellowships.
Martin SchrimpfExpertise
NeuroAI, computational neuroscience, computer vision, natural language processing, human alignment, startups [CV]
Mission
Modeling the brain: Martin's research focuses on a computational understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying natural intelligence in vision and language. To achieve this goal, he bridges Deep Learning, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science, building artificial neural network models that match the brain’s neural representations in their internal processing and are aligned to
Mackenzie MathisCenter for NeuroprostheticsEPFL ELLIS Unit Faculty MemberCenter for Intelligent Systems
Olga FinkEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Han Sun, Leandro Von Krannichfeldt, Keivan Faghih Niresi, Zepeng Zhang, Vinay Sharma, Chenghao Xu, Raffael Pascal Theiler, Kevin Antonio Steiner, Sergei Garmaev, Amaury Wei A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ismail Nejjar, Mengjie Zhao Cours Data Science for infrastructure condition monitoring CIVIL-332 Le cours couvrira les étapes pertinentes de la surveillance de l'état des infrastructures basée sur les données: l'acquisition des données, en passant p
Ayberk OzkirliExpertise
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), visual crowding, serial dependence, population receptive field (pRF) mapping, data analysis, machine learning, age-related macular degeneration, neuroengineering, clinical neuroscience
Expertise
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), visual crowding, serial dependence, population receptive field (pRF) mapping, data analysis, machine learning, age-related macular degeneration, neuroengineering, clinical neuroscience
Gioele La MannoEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Albert Dominguez Mantes, Xinyi Huang, Laura Lapeña Gil, Alessandro Valente, Luca Fusar Bassini, Hao-An Hsiung, Alireza Gargoorimotlagh, Morgane Alice Storey, Rosan Martine Hans, María Cristina Loureiro Casalderrey, Lada Polyakova A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alex Russell Lederer, Irina Khven A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Alexandre Coudray, Alex Russell Lederer, Halima Hannah Emilie Schede, Irina Khven Cours Biological data science I: statistical learning
Sophia BeckerExpertise
Computational and theoretical neuroscienceReinforcement learning
Alexander DittrichCurrent Work
My research interests are somewhere between neural networks with Hebbian plasticity, meta-reinforcement learning, and the control of rather unconventional soft robotic platforms like tensegrity robots.
