Update 22.06.2023: This position has been filled. Join our neurotheory outfit at the FMI in Basel as a post-doctoral researcher. Position available immediately or for starting later in 2023. Topics of interest include See www.zenkelab.orgContinue reading
Happy holiday greetings
The Zenke Lab extends our warmest wishes for a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year. We hope you will enjoy this time of year to spend time with family and friends and forContinue reading
Basel Comp Neuro Mini Symposium
This year, members from three comp neuro groups in Basel from the Biozentrum, FMI, and IOB braved the elements (and localized COVID outbreaks) to get together for an afternoon of scientific talks given by studentsContinue reading
A tactile robotic finger tip and a spiking neural network read Braille
This fun project started as a summer student project at Telluride 2021 led and advised by Chiara Bartolozzi and myself. An incredibly motivated group of summer students taught a robotic fingertip with tactile sensors andContinue reading
Holomorphic Equilibrium Propagation
Thrilled to introduce Holomorphic Equilibrium Propagation (hEP) in this new preprint led by Axel Laborieux. We extend classic equilibrium propagation to the complex domain and show that it computes exact gradients with finite size oscillations,Continue reading
The lab on tour
September was meeting month with the lab attending several meetings and conferences, including the Bernstein conference in Berlin and the FMI annual meeting in Grindelwald. After a long hiatus it was great to finally engageContinue reading
tinyML Neuromorphic Engineering Forum
Happy to announce the tinyML Neuromorphic Engineering Forum, a virtual one-day meeting on September 27, 2022 to bring the tinyML and neurmorphic community closer. The forum is spearheaded by Charlotte Frenkel and co-organized by colleaguesContinue reading
Announcing SNUFA 2022
We are happy to announce SNUFA 2022, an online workshop focused on research advances in the field of “Spiking Networks as Universal Function Approximators.” SNUFA 2022 will take place online 9-10 November 2022, European afternoons.Continue reading
Axel awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations, Axel (woot woot), for being awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship, the interim Swiss equivalent of a Marie Curie European Fellowship, to work on fundamental questions pertaining to neuronal circuit architectures and learning. WeContinue reading
Fluctuation-driven initialization for spiking neural network training
Surrogate gradients are a great tool for training spiking neural networks in computational neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering, but what is a good initialization? In our new preprint co-led by Julian and Julia, we lay outContinue reading