@SmithLabNeuro

Systems and computational neuroscience in the Steel City. Carnegie Mellon University BME and Neuroscience Institute.

 Pittsburgh, PA
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Joined November 2018
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📷 CMU is hiring an Asst Prof in NeuroAI! Join a collaborative, cross-department community spanning ML/AI, robotics, neuro & neurotech @CarnegieMellon Neuro Institute PhD in neuro, ML, robotics, CS, cogsci, EE or related. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189268 #NeuroAI #AcademicJobs
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Yuki Minai@curi_ms1 Dec 2025
I'm excited to share our new #NeurIPS2025 paper with @jsoldadomagrane @YuLikeNeuro @SmithLabNeuro! We introduce OMiSO, a new adaptive brain stimulation framework with two technical advancements from our previous work MiSO. Poster Sess 1, Dec 3 11-2pm, Exhibit Hall C,D,E #2008
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Apply to come join us at CMU BME! apply.interfolio.com/174277
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"Robustness of Working Memory to Prefrontal Cortex Microstimulation" So happy to see this work out as part of the JNeuro Special Collection "Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex" doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.21…
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We had a great kick-off site visit with our NHP teams at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and John Hopkins University! Thank you all so much for hosting us!
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🎉There's a new doctor in the world!🎉 A warm congratulations to @dixitsheron, PhD. I'm proud of you! You’ve come so far, and we’re excited to see how far you’ll go. Thanks to @SmithLabNeuro for serving as outside examiner, and to Denis Pare for serving as chair.
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Yuki Minai@curi_ms5 Dec 2024
I'm excited to share our #NeurIPS2024 paper with @jsoldadomagrane @SmithLabNeuro @YuLikeNeuro! We develop a new brain stimulation framework (MiSO) to drive neural population activity toward specified states. Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=Gb0mXh… Poster Session 4 East, Dec 12 16:30 [1/n]
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Neurorobotics! @cmuneurosci ! Apply! apply.interfolio.com/157182
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Byron Yu@YuLikeNeuro30 Sep 2024
We are excited to share our new method, SNOPS (Spiking Network Optimization using Population Statistics), published in @NatComputSci. It was led by @Shenghao_W, with @cc_huang11, Adam Snyder, @SmithLabNeuro, and @BrentDoiron. nature.com/articles/s43588-0… (1/n)

Automated customization of large-scale spiking network models to neuronal population activity

Nature Computational Science - An automatic framework, SNOPS, is developed for configuring a spiking network model to reproduce neuronal recordings. It is used to discover previously unknown...

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Come join us @cmuneurosci ! We're recruiting a new Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute: apply.interfolio.com/151921
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SaveTheDates: SimCo 2024 Sept5-7th in Pittsburgh Keynotes @eabuffalo @JulioMTNeuro &SabineKastner and many more speakers, YIA and posters .... updates to be posted on simiancollective.com @MIcheleABasso1 @aaronbatista @Macacophile

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🚨Awesome news alert🚨 Our Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Course is back!! When: 8-24th July 2024 Where: CMU-Africa campus, Kigali, Rwanda Applications open: 15th January 2024 Applications close: 15th February 2024 For news on the course follow @trend_camina
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New @tweeprint! Compact deep neural network models of visual cortex B. Cowley, P. Stan, J. Pillow*, M. Smith* tiny.cc/dmxhvz Task-driven DNN models nicely predict neural responses but have millions of params---next to impossible to explain. Do they need to be so large?
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Joint work with myself, Pati Stan (twitterless), @jpillowtime @SmithLabNeuro Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @CSHL Carnegie Mellon University @cmuneurosci Princeton University @PrincetonNeuro biorxiv paper: tiny.cc/dmxhvz
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Now that we @UChicago_Brains just hired 2 faculty in Computational Neuroscience we are addicted to it. We will be hiring 2 more faculty this round in Comp Neuro - one in the Department of Neurobiology and one in the Department of Physics. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/133134
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We are hiring for two positions in @cmupsych, one joint with @cmuneurosci - Please apply and come join us in Pittsburgh! apply.interfolio.com/132608
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Byron Yu@YuLikeNeuro26 Sep 2023
We’ve posted a new paper on an automatic method to fit large-scale spiking network models to neuronal population recordings: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Automated customization of large-scale spiking network models to neuronal population activity

Understanding brain function is facilitated by constructing computational models that accurately reproduce aspects of brain activity. Networks of spiking neurons capture the underlying biophysics of...

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CMU_BME@cmu_bme3 Oct 2022
Join Our Team! @cmu_bme invites applications for full-time tenure-track faculty positions. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/113864
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Welcome to Assistant Prof @BenjoCowley! His lab will study how the brain processes information gathered by the senses, creating computer models to capture the step-by-step calculations across neural circuits. cshl.edu/benjamin-cowley-joi…

Benjamin Cowley joins CSHL neuroscience faculty | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Benjamin Cowley joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neuroscience faculty as an assistant professor on September 26, 2022. The Cowley group studies how the brain processes information...

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Update of potential interest: I'll be starting a comp neuro group at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @CSHL in Sept 2022! Our group will build closed-loop machine learning techniques and interpretable, data-driven models to understand the step-by-step computations of the brain.
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