August, 2025 The lab is now funded by an R01 from the NIH BRAIN Initiative.
August, 2025 Marlan finished his Master's thesis.
May, 2025 Eric presented a poster on decision variable correlation at the VSS conference.
April, 2025 Xuexin gave a talk at the NETI Workshop.
February, 2025 Xuexin is named a Sloan Research Fellow.
January, 2025 New paper on how representational geometry determines behavior errors (Wei & Woodford) published at PNAS.
January, 2025 Ronan's thesis work is published at Cell Reports!
January, 2025 New paper on grid cells (collboration with Ying Nian Wu's group) is accepted by ICLR.
November, 2024 Ronan has been awared a CPS research excellence award for his thesis work.
November, 2024 Ronan successfully defended his PhD thesis.
November, 2024 Shun successfully defended his PhD thesis.
September, 2024 Xuexin gave at talk at Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
August, 2024 Maggie and Xuexin published a News and Views piece at Nature Machine Intelligence.
August, 2024 Zhongxuan presented a poster on drift-duffusion models of hippocampus replay at the CCN conference.
August, 2024 Maggie finished her Master's thesis.
July, 2024 Research in the lab is featured in the Texas Scientist Magazine.
July, 2024 The lab is now funded by NIH through an R01 award.
May, 2024 Xuexin gave a talk in the Neuroeconomics Seminar Series of University of Zurich.
May, 2024 Xuexin presented a poster on the identifiability of Bayesian observer model (work with Michael Hahn) at VSS.
May, 2024 Xuexin gave a talk in the NeuroAI symposium at WashU.
April, 2024 The work with Michael Hahn is featured in Daily Texan, and Colleage of Natural Sciences at UT Austin.
April, 2024 Paper with Michael Hahn is published at Nature Neuroscience.
March, 2024 Dylan presented his work on split-trial analysis at the Cosyne conference.
September, 2023 The lab is now funded by an NSF award through the EFRI (Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation) program.
April, 2023 The research with Zaki et al is featured in The Daily Texan.
April, 2023 The work with Zaki et al is featured in the news of Colleage of Natural Sciences at UT Austin.
April, 2023 Paper with Rong on Poisson functional PCA is published at Nature Communications.
March, 2023 Paper with Zaki et al on the head direction system is published at Nature.
January, 2023 Xuexin gave a talk at the Manhattan Representational Geometry Workshop at Columbia U.
January, 2023 Xuexin visited and gave a talk at the Flatiron Institute.
May, 2022 Paper with Xinyi et al is published at Journal of Neuroscience.
October, 2021 Xuexin gave a talk in the CRCNS meeting.
September, 2021 Paper with Nikolaus Kriegeskorte is published at Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
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!