Julien Vitay

Researcher in Computational Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

TU Chemnitz

I am researcher and lecturer at the TU Chemnitz, in the lab of Artificial Intelligence of the Faculty of Computer Science.

I was previously postdoc in the Psychology Department of the University of Münster (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fred Hamker and a PhD student at Inria Nancy (France), in the Cortex lab headed by Dr. Frédéric Alexandre.

My research interests focus on computational neuroscience (basal ganglia, hippocampus, dopaminergic system) and neuro-informatics (neuro-simulator ANNarchy). I am also interested in machine learning, especially the recent advances in deep reinforcement learning and its application to robotics.

Interests

Computational Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Parallel Computing

Education

Habilitation in Computer Science, 2017

TU Chemnitz
PhD in Computer Science, 2006

Université Henri-Poincaré Nancy-I

Selected Publications

Francesc Villagrasa, Javier Baladron, Julien Vitay, Henning Schroll, Evan G. Antzoulatos, Earl K. Miller, Fred H. Hamker (2018). On the role of cortex-basal ganglia interactions for category learning: A neuro-computational approach. Journal of Neuroscience 0874-18; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-18.2018.

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Lorenz Gönner, Julien Vitay, Fred H. Hamker (2017). Predictive Place-Cell Sequences for Goal-Finding Emerge from Goal Memory and the Cognitive Map: A Computational Model. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 11:84. doi:10.3389/fncom.2017.00084.

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Julien Vitay (2017). On the role of dopamine in motivated behavior: a neuro-computational approach. Habilitation (TU Chemnitz).

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Julien Vitay, Helge Ü. Dinkelbach, Fred H. Hamker (2015). ANNarchy: a code generation approach to neural simulations on parallel hardware. Front. Neuroinform. 9:19. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2015.00019.

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Julien Vitay, Fred H. Hamker (2014). Timing and expectation of reward: a neuro-computational model of the afferents to the ventral tegmental area. Front. Neurorobot. 8:4. doi:10.3389/fnbot.2014.00004.

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Latest Publication

More Publications

Francesc Villagrasa, Javier Baladron, Julien Vitay, Henning Schroll, Evan G. Antzoulatos, Earl K. Miller, Fred H. Hamker (2018). On the role of cortex-basal ganglia interactions for category learning: A neuro-computational approach. Journal of Neuroscience 0874-18; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-18.2018.

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Research

ANNarchy

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

Deep Learning

Deep neural networks and their applications.

Dopaminergic system

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

Contact

My office is in the StraNa building, room 1 / 348.

julien.vitay@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
(+49) 371 531 39468
TU Chemnitz, Strasse der Nationen 62, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Office hours on Mondays 13:00 to 14:00 (during the lectures period)