The computational neurobiology lab

The Gonda brain research center, Bar Ilan University

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We study learning in brains and machines. Brains develop and change following experience. Using a wide variety of neurobiological data from electrophysiology to in-situ hybridization and RNA sequencing, we quantify how plasticity is implemented in neural tissues. Machines can also learn from examples. We develop algorithms that allow machines to represent complex signals and learn effectively at large scale. We teach our machines to recognize sounds and images in videos.

Selected projects: What genes are expressed during brain development? And where? PLoS CB, 2012 How do motor neurons in human cooperate to code movement? In progress How do cells tune the timing of their response to changes? Nature Biotechnology, 2009 How do cortical neurons process complex sounds? Neuron, 2006, PNAS, 2012 How can you learn to find similar images at large scale? JMLR, 2010 , 2012 ICML, 2012