Experience

Academic positions

 
 
 
 
 

Researcher / Lecturer

TU Chemnitz

Mar 2011 – Present Chemnitz (Germany)

Tenure position in the lab of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science.

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Introduction to AI, Proseminar.
  • Research: computational neuroscience, machine learning.
  • Admin: coordination with SEKO, Erasmus+ coordinator.
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

University of Münster

Jul 2006 – Feb 2011 Münster (Germany)

Postdoc at the Institute for Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Research topics:

  • Basal Ganglia modeling.
  • Reinforcement learning.
 
 
 
 
 

PhD student

Inria Lorraine

Oct 2002 – Jun 2006 Nancy (France)

PhD student at the University Henri-Poincaré Nancy-I and Inria Lorraine (LORIA).

Research topic:

  • Emergence of sensorimotor functions on a numerical distributed neural substrate.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching assistant

Université Henri-Poincaré Nancy-I, ESIAL

Oct 2002 – Jun 2006 Nancy (France)

Teaching assistant at the University Henri-Poincaré Nancy-I and ESIAL engineering school.

Teaching topics:

  • Java
  • Computer architecture
  • Project management
  • Artificial Intelligence

Selected Publications

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In addition to the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the basal ganglia (BG) have been increasingly often reported to play a fundamental role in …
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Hippocampal place-cell sequences observed during awake immobility often represent previous experience, suggesting a role in memory …
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Neuro-computational models allow to study the brain mechanisms involved in intelligent behavior and extract essential computational …
PDF Project

Many modern neural simulators focus on the simulation of networks of spiking neurons on parallel hardware. Another important framework …
PDF Code Project DOI

Neural activity in dopaminergic areas such as the ventral tegmental area is influenced by timing processes, in particular by the …
PDF Code Project DOI

Research

A selection of research topics

ANNarchy (Artificial Neural Networks architect) is a general-purpose parallel neuro-simulator for rate-coded or spiking neural networks.
Code Dataset Slides

Deep neural networks and their applications to emotion recognition, attention, sensor fusion…

Modeling the dopaminergic system (VTA, SNc), its afferences and its influence on the basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.
Code

Teaching

Courses taught at the TU Chemnitz

  • Machine Learning

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/edu/ml

  • Computer Vision

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/edu/biver

  • Introduction to AI

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/edu/ki

  • Proseminar AI

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/edu/prosem

Recent Posts

Successor representations (SR) attract a lot of attention these days, both in the neuroscientific and machine learning / deep RL …
24 min read

Recent Talks

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become extremely popular in the last years through the advancement of Deep Learning, a modernized …
Mar 16, 2019 12:00 Chemnitz
Slides Video

Contact

My office is in the StraNa building (in front of the main station), room 1 / 348.