Ulf Knoblich

Short CV

2003 - present   Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT,
working with Tomaso Poggio and Christopher Moore
1999 - 2003Diplom in Computer Science, Saarland University
2000 - 2003Research assistant at DFKI

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Research interests

  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Neural Coding
  • Sensory Processing and Integration (in visual and somatosensory cortices)
  • Whole-cell in-vivo recordings in Rat Barrel Cortex
  • Biophysical Modeling
  • Active Learning

Publications

Conference Papers

Book Chapters

  • T. Serre, G. Kreiman, M. Kouh, C. Cadieu, U. Knoblich and T. Poggio.
    A quantitative theory of immediate visual recognition.
    In Progress in Brain Research (special volume on computational neuroscience), in press.

Technical Reports

Posters

  • T. Serre, M. Kouh, C. Cadieu, U. Knoblich, G. Kreiman and T. Poggio.
    A Theory of Object Recognition: Computations and Circuits in the Feedforward Path of the Ventral Stream in Primate Visual Cortex.
    Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT, 2006.
  • U. Knoblich, C. Koch and T. Poggio.
    Biophysical mechanisms for the maximum and tuning operations.
    Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2005.
  • U. Knoblich and T. Poggio.
    Canonical Neural Circuits for Multidimensional Tuning and a MAX-like operation.
    Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2004.
  • U. Knoblich, D.J. Freedman, T. Poggio, E.K. Miller and M. Riesenhuber.
    Category- vs. Shape-Tuning in Inferotemporal (ITC) and Prefrontal (PFC) Cortices: Insights from Modeling.
    Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2002.
  • M. Riesenhuber and U. Knoblich.
    What Stimulus Simplification Does and Does not Tell us about Neuronal Tuning and Object Representation in Inferotemporal Cortex (IT): Insights from Modeling.
    Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2002.

Contact

Ulf Knoblich

Center for Biological & Computational Learning
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bldg. 46-5155
43 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: +1 (617) 253-0548
knoblich at csail.mit.edu


Last modified: Jan 2007 by uk