Role
Dr Gleb Basalyga is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) .
Research interests
I participate in the COLAMN project (A Novel Computing Architecture for Cognitive Systems based on the Laminar Microcircuitry of the Neocortex), which is funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physics Research Council) grant EP/C010841/1.
The main goal of the project is to identify and capture the key fundamental principles of the information processing power of the cortex.
I am developing a detailed biologically-precise computational model of primary visual cortex (V1) using Parallel NEURON software.
Large scale simulations of this model will be performed on the COLAMN Computer Cluster which comprises of 20 dual-core dual-processor computers (equivalent to 80 CPU cores) connected by a fast Myrinet interconnect.
Publications
G. Basalyga and T. Wennekers, "Large-Scale Computational Model of Cat Primary Visual Cortex", BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10, Suppl 1, P358.
G. Basalyga and E. Salinas, "When Response Variability Increases Neural Network Robustness to Synaptic Noise", Neural Computation, 18:6, pp. 1349-1379, 2006 (pre-print: q-bio.NC/0510036).
G. Basalyga and M. Rattray, "Statistical Dynamics of On-line Independent Component Analysis", Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 4, pp. 1393-1410, 2003 (pre-print: cond-mat/0309554).
G. Basalyga and M. Rattray, "Dynamics of ICA for High-dimensional Data", Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2002, LNCS 2415, edited by J.R. Dorronsoro,Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1112-1118, 2002.
M. Rattray and G. Basalyga, "Scaling Laws and Local Minima in Hebbian ICA", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, edited by T. G. Dietterich and S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 495-501, 2002.
Links
Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN):
http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/ctcn/
COLAMN Project
http://colamn.plymouth.ac.uk/colamn-project
COLAMN Computer Cluster Wiki
http://helen.pion.ac.uk/colamn
NEURON software at Duke
http://neuron.duke.edu/
NEURON software at Yale
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/index.html
The NeuroNetwork, a professional network dedicated to study the brain.
http://theneuronetwork.com/
