PhD candidate
Research group | CINPLA
Main supervisor | Mikkel Lepperød
Co-supervisor | Marianne Fyhn, Arvind Kumar, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen
Affiliation | Department of Biosciences, UiO
Contact | krubeal.danieli@ibv.uio.no
Short bio
I pursued my Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Trento, Italy, studying classical Psychology and Neuroscience. During that time, I did an Erasmus at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where it sparked my interest for programming and AI. Before graduating, I also did an internship in Behavioral Psychology at the University of Nagasaki, Japan.
Then, I continued with a Master’s degree in Computational Neuroscience at the Université Côte d’Azur, France, studying neural modelling and applied Mathematics. I wrote my thesis on the derivation of a statistical model of place cells turnover in the Hippocampus, during an Erasmus Traineeship at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Research interests and hobbies
Academically, my ambition is to model intelligence and its underlying dynamics, at the boundary between computational neuroscience and AI.
As for my hobbies, I enjoy reading, attending cultural events and hiking.
CompSci project
Neuron population dynamics and the role of neuromodulators for learning in biological and artificial neural networks
Neuromodulation is a sophisticated mechanisms used by biological networks to improve their computational abilities, implement meta-learning strategies and integrate important information, like motivation and reward (Goldman-Rakic, 1997).
My goal is to model how this is accomplished and propose new bio-inspired solutions for artificial learning problems, in particular continual and multi-task learning.
For this project, I will be using hybrid artificial and spiking neural models, trained through novel synaptic plasticity rules and evolutionary algorithms.
Publications
CompSci publications
None yet.
Previous publications
- Morandi-Raikova, A., Danieli, K., Lorenzi, E., Rosa-Salva, O., & Mayer, U. (2021). Anatomical asymmetries in the tectofugal pathway of dark-incubated domestic chicks: Rightwards lateralization of parvalbumin neurons in the entopallium. Laterality, 26(1-2), 163-185.
- Danieli, K. (2019). Recensione di K. Andrews, J. Beck (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 10(2), 226-228
