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Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Teti, Ph.D.

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”.

Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Teti, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Teti for successfully defending her dissertation on “The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space”.

Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel St. Clair, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Rachel St. Clair who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Preserving Knowledge in Simulated Behavioral Action Loops” on Friday, March 18, 2022.

Graduates

Congratulations to Dr. Alex Clark, Ph.D.

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.””

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”.

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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