Unit News

A collaboration with Tom George (an internship student from UCL) "A generative model of the hippocampal formation trained with theta driven local learning rules" was accepted by NeurIPs2023.

Thomas Burns' work "Simplicial Hopfield networks" has been accepted for presentation at ICLR2023. Congratulations!

Congratulations to OIST PhD Student Thomas Burns and Professor Fukai on their recent article accepted to ICLR 2023, showing the utility of mixtures of pairwise and setwise connections in Hopfield networks to store memories more efficiently. (January 2023)

Congratulations to Roman Koshkin being selected for the Google AI PhD Fellowship!

Congratulations to OIST PhD Student Roman Koshkin for being one of the recipients of Google AI's 13th annual PhD Fellowship Program in the Health category! (September 2021)

Congratulations to Dr. Menezes Carvalho for defending her PhD at Tōdai!

Congratulations to OIST Special Research Student Milena Menezes Carvalho, for obtaining her PhD degree from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Menezes Carvalho will return to OIST as a postdoc starting next month! (March 2021)

Congratulations to Dr. Asabuki for defending his PhD at Tōdai!

Congratulations to OIST Special Research Student Toshitake Asabuki-san, for succesfully defending his PhD at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Asabuki will come back to OIST as a Postdoctoral Researcher. (March 2020)

Congratulations to Asabuki-san and Professor Fukai on their Nature Communications paper!

Congratulations to Asabuki-san and Professor Fukai on their recent article published in Nature Communications, showing the powerful ability of neural networks with dendrites to analyze temporal features. (March 2020)