Alireza ModirshanechiI am a computer science Ph.D. student in the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience at EPFL where I work on computational models of learning and decision-making in the brain - under the supervision of Prof. Wulfram Gerstner. My main track of research focuses on (i) mathematical definitions of surprise and novelty, (ii) their influence on human behavior, and (iii) their manifestation in physiological measurements. I use statistical inference, information theory, and reinforcement learning to develop theoretical models which I test against behavioral and physiological data. I have worked with EEG, MEG, fMRI, and single neuron recordings.
Prior to joining EPFL, I received my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. During the last two years of my study, I did a few research projects in the Augmented Intelligence Research Lab (AIR Lab) under the supervision of Prof. Hamid Aghajan. My projects were mainly on (i) studying biomarkers of surprise in EEG signals, (ii) decoding surprise using these biomarkers, and (iii) fMRI-based classification of visual and auditory stimuli.
You can find my random scientific notes and educational articles here in my Medium account, and more information about me on my personal website.
Cédric DucheneI was born in Charleville-Mézières, France, on July 28, 1979.
I graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Reims, France, in 2002. I received the M.S degree in image and signal processing from the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, in 2003. From October 2003 to September 2007, I have been pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Grenoble National Polytechnical Institute (INPG), France. My supervisors were
Pierre-Olivier Amblard
and
Steeve Zozor
.
I was teaching assistant from October 2006 to August 2007 at the Institute of Technology of Grenoble (IUT GEII2). Since November 2007, I have a post-doctoral position with the LTS1 Team, EPFL and
MOTILIS MEDICA S.A.
.
My research interests are non linear and adaptive signal processing, fluctuations, biomedical signal processing. I am also an organizer of the
Nonlinearity and noise meetings
, a collaboration between several researchers working on the field of nonlinear signal processing.
Muhammad ZakwanMuhammad Zakwan is a doctoral assistant in the Dependable Control and Decision group (DECODE) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is also a member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation. Zakwan holds an Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from Bilkent University(Turkey) and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Pakistan).
