Biography

Alper Yeğenoğlu is a postdoc in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. He received his PhD (Dr.rer.nat) in computer science in 2023. His research interests include bio-inspired learning, meta-learning, neuro-architecture search and gradient-free optimization with population based techniques (metaheuristics) such as evolutionary algorithms.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Meta-learning, learning to learn
  • Neuro-architecture search, AutoML
  • Gradient-free Optimization
  • Metaheuristics
Education
  • PhD in computer science, 2023

    RWTH Aachen

Skills

Technical
Python
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Neuroscience
Hobbies
Music

I do electronic music, especially synthwave. You can listen to my music at https://soundcloud.com/electric-courage and https://electriccourage.bandcamp.com/

Table-tennis
Reading

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Topics include:

  • Gradient free optimization methods applied on
  • Artificial and spiking neural networks (SNNs)
  • Emergent self-organization and self-coordination in multi-agent systems steered by SNNs
  • Meta-Learning and Multi-task learning with SNNs on high performance computing systems
 
 
 
 
 

Duties involved:

  • Implementation of statistical analysis methods for electrophysiological and analog time series data
  • Maintaining the Electrophysiology Analysis Toolkit Analysis Toolkit (Elephant)
  • Supporting other scientists implementing additional analysis methods

Recent Publications

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(2023). Two-compartment neuronal spiking model expressing brain-state specific apical-amplification,-isolation and-drive regimes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06074.

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(2022). 6th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research. 6th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research.

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(2022). Emergent communication enhances foraging behaviour in evolved swarms controlled by Spiking Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08484 (submitted to Swarm Intelligence, Springer Nature).

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(2019). Generalised learning of time-series: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09394.

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