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Professor David Barrett

Research Associate, University of Cambridge.
College Research Associate, St John's College, Cambridge

Contact information

Computational and Biological Learning,
Office BE-435,
Information Engineering Division,, Department of Engineering,, University of Cambridge
Cambridge
CB2 1PZ
United Kingdom

Biography

I received an undergraduate degree in Theoretical Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 2006, and an M.Sc in Sparse Coding in 2007. I completed a Ph.D in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the Gatsby Unit, UCL, with Prof. Peter Latham and Prof.Prof. Peter Dayan in 2012. After my PhD, I held a joint-research position at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon. In May 2014, I joined theComputational and Biological Learning Lab at Cambridge University, where I have been working with Máté Lengyel. I am also a College Research Associate at St John's College, Cambridge.

Research interests

Neural Networks, Sparse coding, Variational Inference, The Helmholtz Machine, Auto-encoding, Optimal compensation theory, Quadratic Programming, Balanced network theory, Noise correlations, Visual cortex tuning, Natural sound processing and Information theory.

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