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Máté Lengyel is a lecturer in computational neuroscience at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Previously, he studied biology for his MSc and neurobiology for his PhD at Eötvös University, Budapest, while working in the computational neuroscience lab of Péter Érdi. He was then a postdoc with Peter Dayan at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, followed by a visiting research fellowship at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study. He studies learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. He also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippocampus and neocortex.

Cristina Savin joined the group in 2010 as a postdoc. Previously, she had studied Computer Science for her MSc at the Technical Universoty of Cluj-Napoca, and did her PhD in the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies with Jochen Triesch. She is interested in how different plasticity mechanisms interact to achieve interesting computation in neural circuits.

Balázs Ujfalussy joined the group in 2011 as a postdoc. Previously, he had studied biology and neurobiology for his MSc and PhD at Eötvös University while working in the computational neuroscience lab of Péter Érdi. He is interested in normative models of dendritic processing.

Neil Houlsby joined CBL in 2010 as a PhD student on a Google Europe Fellowship in Statistical Machine Learning after having obtained an MEng at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He is co-supervised by Zoubin Ghahramani and Máté Lengyel. He is currently working on the theory and application of Bayesian active learning.

DJ Strouse joined the group in 2011 as an MPhil student on a Churchill Fellowship after having obtained a BA in Physics and BSc in Mathematics at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA). He is generally interested in normative models in biology and is currently developing simple models of dendritic integration and somatic membrane potential.

Affiliated

Gergő Orbán joined CBL in 2010 as a Marie Curie Fellow. Previously, he had studied Physics for his MSc at Eötvös University, Budapest, and worked in the Computational Neuroscience Lab of Péter Érdi, with Eörs Szathmáry at Collegium Budapest and with József Fiser at the Volen Center, Brandeis University. He is interested in the computational principles governing the learning of the elaborate statistics of environmental stimuli and how the acquired knowledge is exploited in planning motor behaviour.

Jean-Pascal Pfister was a postdoc in the group between 2008-2010. Previously, he had studied Physics for his MSc at EPFL, Lausanne, had done his PhD in Wulfram Gerstner's lab at EPFL, and had been a project manager and researcher at Helbling Technik, Bern. He is now a postdoc in the Computational Neuroscience Lab at the University of Bern. His main interest is the computational modelling of short- and long-term forms of synaptic plasticity.

Ferenc Huszár joined CBL in 2009 as a PhD student after having obtained an MSc in Information Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His interests include topics of NIPSian machine learning, specifically nonparametric Bayesian methods, and applications of ideas and methods from machine learning to biologically and cognitively relevant learning problems.

Alumni

Jean-Pascal Pfister, postdoc (2008-2010)

Gergő Orbán, MSc, PhD (1998-2008)

Ferenc Huszár, MSc (2007-2009)
Zsófia Huhn, MSc (2001-2005)
Tamás Kiss, MSc (1998-2000)
Fanni Misják, MSc (1999-2001)
Gergely Papp, MSc (2001-2003)

Collaborators

Richard Aslin, Dept Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, U Rochester
human psychophysics

Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
computational theory

József Fiser, Dept Psychology, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis U
human psychophysics, in vivo ferret multiunit electriophysiology

Boris Gutkin, Group for Neural Theory, ENS
biophysical theory

Ole Paulsen, Dept Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, U Cambridge
in vitro rat and mouse cortical electrophysiology

Hugo Spiers, Dept Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, UCL
human navigation, fMRI

Daniel Wolpert, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge
human psychophsyics, motor control