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  Richard Hahnloser

     Postdoctoral fellow    (Seung Lab)
      Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
      MIT, E25-210
      Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

                tel: (617) 252 1847
                fax: (617) 452 2913
                e-mail: rhahnloser@mit.edu

Research Interests:  Computational Neuroscience
Current Research Projects:
Songbirds,
Head-direction system.



Background

Postdoc: Biological Computation Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies 2002-2003
Postdoc:
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1999-2002
PhD: Institute of Neuroinformatics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) 1996-1999
Diploma:
Theoretical Physics  at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL + ETHZ)
1991-1996


Publications

Journal Papers

Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Seung, H.S. and Slotine, J.-J. (2002). 
Permitted and forbidden sets in symmetric threshold-linear networks. 
Neural Computation, 15 (3).

Xie, X. and Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Seung, H.S. (2002).
Selectively Grouping Neurons in Recurrent Networks of Lateral Inhibition. 
Neural Computation, 14 (11).

Xie, X. and Hahnloser, R.H.R., and Seung, H.S. (2002).
A double-ring network model of the head-direction system.
Physical Review E 66, 041902: 1--9.

Hahnloser,  R.H.R. and Kozhevnikov, A. and Fee, M.S. (2002).
An ultrasparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in songbirds.
Nature, 419: 65--70.

Rasche, C. and Hahnloser, R.H.R. (2001).
Silicon Synaptic Depression.
Biological Cybernetics 84, 57-62.

Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Sarpeshkar and Mahowald, M. and Douglas, R.J. and Seung, H.S. (2000).
Digital Selection and Analogue Amplification Coexist in a Cortex-Inspired Electronic Circuit.
Nature 405, 947-51.

Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Douglas, R.J. and Mahowald, M. and Hepp, K. (1999).
Feedback Interactions between Neuronal Pointers and Maps for Attentional Processing.
Nature Neuroscience 2(8), 746-52.

Hahnloser, R.H.R. (1998).
Learning algorithms based on linearization
Network: Computation in Neural Systems.

Hahnloser, R.H.R. (1998).  
On the Piecewise Analysis of Networks of Linear Threshold Neurons.
Neural Networks 11, 691-697.

Conference papers

Xie, X. and Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Seung, H.S. (2000).
Learning Winner-Take-All competition between Groups of Neurons in Lateral Inhibitory Networks.
NIPS Proceedings.

Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Seung, S. (2000).
Permitted and Forbidden Sets in Symmetric Threshold Linear Networks. 
NIPS Proceedings.

Mudra, R. and  Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Douglas, R.J. (1999).
Integrating Neuromorphic Action-Oriented Perceptual Inputs to Generate a Navigation Behaviour for a Robot.    
EWNS2: 2nd European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems, 2-5 September, University of Stirling.

Mudra, R. and Hahnloser, R.H.R. and Douglas, R.J. (1999).
Neuromorpic Active Vision Used in Simple Navigation Behaviour for a Robot
Proceedings of the 7th Internat. Conf. on Microelectronics for Neural Networks,
Granada, Spain, April 7-9, 32-36.

Hahnloser, R.H.R (1998).
Generating network trajectories using gradient descent in state space. 
IJCNN Proceedings.


Other Stuff

    Together wth Hein Roehrig,  I programmed a website called the World Wide Journal Club


Last updated: 11-20-02