Hi! My name is Robert Bain. I am a Neurobiology and Behavior PhD student in the McNaughton Lab at UC Irvine.
At my foundation I am a scientist, educator, and humanist.
Why are they called artificial neural networks? This paper answers that question by summarizing the influence that biological neural networks have had on ANNs as they became our best perceptual systems in silico. It also documents my attempt to continue the tradition of using neuroscience to empower ANNs.
Paper on developing 3D object detection algorithms with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
Paper on visualizing the effects that pruning has on deep neural networks' loss landscapes. Desktop demo: here.
Simulations of hippocampal replay in a spiking neural network path planner.
Marjan Rashidi and I trained a VQ-VAE on 2D slices from T1-weighted MRI scans, achieving strong reconstruction performance on unseen brain data. We used the quantized outputs for downstream tasks like binary classification, demonstrating the model’s utility for feature extraction and anomaly detection.
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