Awards & Recognition

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Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis

Honored for groundbreaking contributions to the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning

Recipients:

Merkourios Simos

Received for his Master's thesis in the lab on imitation learning

Recipients:

Mackenzie W. Mathis and Alexander Mathis

For uncovering the theoretical and neural basis of mechanisms underlying adaptive behaviour in intelligent systems. They developed the first animal pose estimation computer vision tool that requires little user input data.

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Team Lattice (Alessandro Marin Vargas, Alberto Chiappa, Alexander Mathis)

Through the application of curriculum learning, reward shaping, and Lattice-driven exploration, they successfully trained a policy to control a biologically-realistic arm equipped with 63 muscles and 27 degrees of freedom.

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Alberto Chiappa, Nisheet Patel, Pablo Tano, Alexandre Pouget, Alexander Mathis

Winning solution for the inaugural NeurIPS MyoChallenge. See the Neuron paper discussing the solution and implications for biological motor control.