During my graduate studies at Brown University I was a member of the Ersatz Brain Group and I worked on the computational modeling of cognitive processes and of vision in particular. In my MSc thesis I modeled pop-out phenomena in visual attention and in my doctoral dissertation I proposed a novel approach to visual recognition.

Published work

• Visual Recognition with a Large Scale Network of Dynamical Systems, PhD Thesis, Brown University, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, September 2010
  [Brown Digital Repository]

• Visual processing as a large scale integration of associative neural networks, 4^th Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Boston MA, USA, November 2009
  [abstract] [poster]

• Cortically-inspired parallel processing, 13^th SIAM conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Atlanta GA, USA, March 2008
  [abstract] [presentation]

• Programming a Parallel Computer: The Ersatz Brain Project, In Wlodzislaw Duch and Jacek Mandziuk (Eds.), Challenges for Computational Intelligence, Vol. 63, Springer: Berlin, 2007
  [preprint] [SpringerLink]

• A network of networks model of pop-out phenomena in visual attention, 2^nd Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Houston TX, USA, November 2006
  [abstract] [poster]

• A Networks of Networks Approach to Computational Modeling of Pop-out Phenomena in Visual Attention, MSc Thesis, Brown University, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, May 2006
  [Brown Library] [thesis]