Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit (Tomoki Fukai)
Overview
Research interests
- Network mechanisms of statistical modeling (e.g., predicitve coding, hierarchical Bayesian inference)
- Computations in idling brain states for memory, reasoning, and beyond
- Dendritic computation for network-level computing and learning
- Deciphering neural code in large-scale neural activity data
- Spike-based learning and computing theories (for neuro-AI)
Latest Unit News
- Congratulations to Thomas Burns' for his work "Simplicial Hopfield networks" accepted by ICLR2023! (January 2023)
- Congratulations to Dr. Chi-Chung Fung for being offered a tenure-track position at the City University of Hong Kong! (March 2022)
- Congratulations to Dr. Hongjie Bi for being offered a tenure-track position at Shenzhen Bay Laboratory! (March 2022)
- Congratulations to Roman Koshkin being selected for the Google AI PhD Fellowship! (September 2021)
- Congratulations to Dr. Menezes Carvalho for defending her PhD at the University of Tokyo! (March 2021)
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Postdoc opportunities
We are interested in hiring postdocs with strong background in computational neuroscience, physics, and applied mathematics. Interested candidates are requested to send their resumes to tomoki.fukai[at]oist.jp.
For details of the job posting, please refer to the OIST Careers page.