The Neural Computation and Engineering Connection is an annual symposia hosted by the CNC, featuring talks from invited speakers, UW faculty, and postdocs, as well as a poster session and panel on neuroethics.
This year’s NCEC will be held on May 11-12, 2023. Confirmed speakers include Sara Solla, Gautam Reddy, Emily Jane Dennis, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Sama Ahmed, Anna Gillespie, Astra Bryant, Cindy Poo, and Zaid Harchaoui.
Registration is free but required.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
UW Gates Center for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE2)
Zillow Commons & Singh Gallery (4th floor)
11:00a-12:15p Poster session and lunch (provided), Singh Gallery
12:15p-12:30 Welcome, Zillow Commons
12:30-12:50pm “The effects of visual crowding on shape processing in the macaque area V4”
Taekjun Kim, Acting Assistant Professor, Pasupathy Lab
12:50-1:10pm “Quantifying internal model learning in monkeys using a novel continuous tracking task”
Katherine Perks, Neuroscience graduate student, Orsborn Lab
1:10-1:30pm “Graph diffusion modeling to estimate neural communication with high temporal resolution”
Felix Schwock, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science graduate student, Yazdan-Shahmorad lab
1:30-1:45pm
Break
1:45-2:05pm “Probing communication between visual and frontal areas in the awake behaving macaque”
Erin Kempkes, Postbac Research Scientist Pasupathy lab
2:05-2:25pm “Learning hierarchical temporal representations through dynamic predictive coding”
Preston Jiang, Computer Science graduate student, Rao lab
2:25-2:45pm “Spiral waves are coordinated topographically across cortical and subcortical brain areas”
Zhiwen Ye, Acting Assistant Professor, Steinmetz lab
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:30pm "Statistical machine learning for the modeling of functional connectivity"
Zaid Harchaoui, UW Statistics
3:30-4:30pm “Neuroscience as the basis for human computer interaction”
Keynote lecture: Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Google
4:30-4:45pm Break
4:45-5:30pm Ethics panel discussion, presented by Interactive Intelligence
Friday, May 12, 2023
UW Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 145
8:30-9:00am Continental breakfast
9:00-10:00am “From the wild to the lab: how house mice hunt for prey”
Emily Jane Dennis, Janelia Research Campus
10:00-10:30am "The neural basis of temperature-driven host seeking in a human-infective parasitic nematode"
Astra Bryant, UW Physiology and Biophysics
10:30-10:50am Break
10:50-11:20am "Moving and Grooving: A Closer Look at Multitasking Drosophilids"
Sama Ahmed, UW Psychology
11:20-11:50am "Exploring the function and therapeutic potential of hippocampal replay"
Anna Gillespie, UW Biological Structure & Lab Medicine and Pathology
12:00-1:10pm Lunch (provided)
1:10-2:10pm “Physical and algorithmic aspects of olfactory navigation"
Gautam Reddy, Harvard University
2:10-2:50pm Industry Careers and Collaborations
Panel discussion moderated by NeuroTec
2:50-3:10pm Break
3:10-3:40pm “Olfactory navigation and foraging”
Cindy Poo, Allen Institute for Brain Science
3:40-4:40pm “Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics”
Keynote lecture: Sara A Solla, Northwestern University
4:45-6:15pm Reception