Eva wins a NSF CAREER to further accelerate the lab’s study of neural circuits and representation learning from large-scale neural recordings!

Check out more info here:

https://www.bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/eva-dyer-using-nsf-career-award-make-neuron-behavior-connection

Eva Dyer’s work at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience is getting a boost from the Canadian research organization CIFAR. She is one of 18 early career researchers selected for the new group of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, a two-year program designed to accelerate the participants’ careers with funding, mentoring, and skills development.

More info here:
https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/cifar-selects-eva-dyer-global-scholars-research-and-leadership-development-program

The NerDS lab is looking for postdocs to work at the intersection of ML and neuroscience! Please reach out to Dr. Dyer with your CV and research interests.

Mehdi will present his work on building embeddings of animal behavior at the CVPR Workshop on Multi-agent Behavior in New Orleans!

[*] Link to Paper on arXiv

Joy and Ran will present a short paper at Medical Imaging and Deep Learning (MIDL) this year! They develop a hierarchical point cloud-based learning framework that builds representations of brain microstructure captured in volumetric micron-scale X-ray imaging datasets.

Check out the paper here [*]

Mehdi presented his work on using self-supervised learning for neural activity at the Neurips Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning!

More information!

[*] Link to the workshop paper

[*] Link to our full length arXiv version which describes the application of our approach in both computer vision and in neuroscience.

[*] Link to code for neural data sets!
[*] Link to code for using Myow for images