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Welcome to the Laboratory for Hierarchical Anticipatory Learning (HAL Lab). We are a lab at Dalhousie University whose research interests are primarily in the fields of Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. Details can be found at the project pages that will be updated frequently.
Current Lab Members
Thomas Trappenberg [Prof]
tt@cs.dal.ca
Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience
Leah Brown [NSERC USRA]
lbrown@cs.dal.ca
Machine Learning and Robotics
Patrick Connor [Ph.D]
Basal Ganglia, Reinforcement Learning,
Warren Connors [MCS]
Machine Learning
Ian Graven [NSERC USRA]
Machine Learning and Robotics
Paul Hollensen [MCS]
Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience
Jake Kroeker [RA]
Reinforcement Learning
Michal Lisicki [RA]
Machine Learning and Robotics
Jason Satel [Ph.D]
IOR, EEG, Neural Field Theory
Past Lab Members
Paul Hollensen [BCS Honours, 2010]
Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Misha Denil [BCS Honours, 2010]
Machine Learning
Dr. Dominic Standage [Ph.D., 2007]
Mechanisms of short term and long term memory in cortex: neural fields and synaptic plasticity
Bijan Farhoudi [BCS Honours, 2007]
Point attractor networks with resetricted weights
Sajiya Jail [Guest Researcher, 2005-2006]
Spike-timimg dependent plasticity
Matthew Boardman [MCS, 2006]
Extrinsic regularization in parameter optimization for support vector machines
Jesse Rusak [BCS Honours, 2006]
Setup and analysis of a brain-computer interface using support vector machines for single-trial classification
Jason Satel [MCS, 2005]
Motivationally-based learning mechanisms and the dynamics of saccade initiation
Kan Yang [MCS, 2005]
An internet-based electronic voting system with balanced complexity and security
Jie Ouyang [MCS, 2004]
Improved ICAIVS algorithm with mutual information
Alicia Grosvenor [MEC, 2004]
Elliptic Curve cryptography: A viable alternative for maintaining security in low precessing and low memory computing environments
Shelagh Gregory [EMEC, 2003]
Should Canada use biometric identifiers if implementing a natuional identification system?
Dr. Carrie Gates [MSC, 1995]
The application of neural networks to predicating the conductivity of water
George MacLennan [MSC, 1994]
Evolutionary Design of neural networks