Education and professional appointments

since September 2010: Research Associate in CBL, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.

2006-2010: PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2001-2006: undergraduate studies at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; awarded the degree Diploma Engineer in Computer Science (Hons.).

 

Talks

Decoding from correlated signals: the case of associative memory retrieval, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris, November 2012.

Similarity between spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity does suggest learning in the cortex, SfN, October 2012.

Circuit- and systems- level contribution to efficient memory recall in the hippocampus, invited talk in the PhD Students Conference iCoNeT, Freiburg, October 2012.

Recalling palimpsest memories: from single synapses to behavior, talk at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, NY, February 2012.

Storing and recalling memories with metaplastic synapses, Cosyne workshop 'Synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales', March 2011.

Reward dependent learning in recurrent neural networks - emergence of short-term memory, Sloan Swartz annual meeting, June 2010.

Developing a working memory with reward-modulated STDP, Cosyne, February 2009.

A computational model of glia-mediated seizure induction, Neurotrain, Dubrovnik, 2008.

 

Last modified: 28 November 2012