Congratulations to Asal Nouri, a Ph.D. student in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at the MPCR Lab, for winning a College of Science (CoS) Jumpstart Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Gruber Sandbox for our upcoming team work on ‘Rebooting Social Media’ with Drs. Chad Forbes, Garrett Mindt, Steven Gubka, and others!
Congratulations to Giovanni Michel, a student member of the MPCR lab and the Center for the Future Mind. Giovanni was just admitted to Northwestern University’s Ph.D. program in Engineering, with a specialization in electrical engineering relating to his work in the Sandbox.
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Morris for successfully defending his dissertation, “Computation in Self-Attention Networks”.
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Teti for successfully defending his dissertation on “Cracking the Sparse Code: Lateral Competition Forms Robust Vl-Like Representations in Convolutional Neural Networks”.
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Teti for successfully defending her dissertation on “The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space”.
Congratulations to Rachel St. Clair who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Preserving Knowledge in Simulated Behavioral Action Loops” on Friday, March 18, 2022.
Congratulations to Alex Clark who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on Friday, February 25, 2022. Alex’s dissertation was completed under the guidance of Drs. Elan Barenholtz & William Hahn and William Alexander (Committee member) and entitled “Behavioral Analysis of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification.””
Congratulations to Dr. Dimitri Falco who successfully defended his Ph.D. in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in August. Dimitri’s dissertation was completed under the guidance of Dr. Steven Bressler and entitled “A comparison of task-relevant node identification techniques and their impact on network inferences: Group-aggregated subject-specific and voxel wise approaches”.
