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Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Dimitri Falco, Ph.D.

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”.

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Robotics

Astro the Robot Dog

At the MPCR lab, we are using deep-learning based artificial intelligence to bring Astro, a quadruped robotic dog, to life!
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MPCR Recieves One Million Dollar Donation to Build The Rubin and Cindy Gruber Sandbox

The 2019 Presidential Gala celebrated the announcement of a one million dollar gift to establish the Rubin and Cindy Gruber Sandbox in the FAU library. This 3,400 sq. foot space will house the MPCR lab and invite students, faculty and industry partners from every discipline to learn about and develop research in artificial intelligence and deep learning.

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Outreach Education

Overview of 2018 Short Course

In 2018 we piloted our Introduction to Deep Learning Summer Short Course, and we were blown away by the responses of our participants! Those involved with the course reported learning an incredible amount and enjoyed the experience. Here are some of the feedback we received:

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Awards

MPCR Undergraduates Won Awards at FAU's WAVE Entrepreneurial Research Competition!

Congratulations Evita Conway, Stephen Hoover, Michael Kleiman, Emily Stark, Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn!

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Awards

MPCR Undergraduates Won FAU's Undergraduate Research Symposium!

On Friday April 1st, Florida Atlantic University hosted its sixth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, and the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics lab won best poster presentation in the Engineering and Computer Science category.

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Outreach Education

Center students, faculty, and staff talking to high school students about the brain

Faculty and Ph.D. candidates representing the Center for Complex Systems and Brains Sciences talking about the brain at the FAU Expo for high school students on Saturday, October 24th, 2015.

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