Lab news

Dec 10, 2020 Ding Zhou presented a poster on our pi-VAE paper at NeurIPS 2020.

Nov 13, 2020 Xue-Xin gave a presentation at Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club organized by University of Houston

Nov. 10, 2020 Chris Cueva presented a poster on the HD &RNN work (Cueva et al., ICLR, 2020) at ""From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems" conference

Oct 2, 2020 Xue-Xin submitted a manuscript to the ICLR conference with a group of collaborators at UCLA (Ying Nian Wu's group).

Oct 1, 2020 Xue-Xin submitted a UT CNS seed grant proposal with Prof. Yuke Zhu in the Computer Science department of UT Austin.

Sept 25, 2020 Paper (Zhou & Wei, 2020) on pi-VAE ( a new method to extract low-dimensional structure of neural data) got accepted at NeurIPS 2020!

Sept 24, 2020 First official (Zoom) lab meeting of the BBC lab. Shun presented his V1 imaging results from Seidemann Lab.

August 2020 Logan Becker and Dylan Le (both 1st year INS grad students) joined the lab for rotations.

August 18, 2020 Paper (Zhang, Wei, Kay, 2020) on noise correlation of fMRI data is published at Plos Computational Biology!

July 2020 Xue-Xin served as a faculty mentor in the NMA computational neuroscience summer school. Very inspiring experience.

Jun 2020 Yuezhang Liu (master student from HKUST) joined the lab for a remote summer project.

June 11, 2020 Manuscript with Ding Zhou submitted to NeurIPS 2020.

May 26, 2020 Chris Cueva presented our ICLR work on HD&RNN at Neuromatch 2.0 conference.

April 29, 2020 Paper ( Cueva et al, 2020) on modeling Head direction system using optimization RNN is published at the ICLR 2020 conference as a spotlight!

April 13, 2020 Paper ( Wei*, Zhou*, et al, 2020) on ZIG model of calcium imaging data got accepted to the NBDT journal!

March 2020 Weifan Wang (2nd year undergrad from Tsinghua Univ.) joined the lab as a remote RA.

March 2020 Nick Jackson joined the lab for a rotation project.

Feb 2020 Xue-Xin presented a poster on optimization-based RNN & Head direction system at CoSyNe conference.

Feb 2020 Khanh Nguyen (1st year undergrad) joined the lab.

Feb 7, 2020 Xue-Xin presented the results on Poisson fPCA in the lab meeting of Robbe Goris lab.

Jan 16, 2020 First day in the lab!