Memming Park
Computational Neuroscientist & Neurotechnologist
- Reposted by Memming Park📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
- Back in 2014, I co-organized a #COSYNE workshop on scalable modeling. scalablemodels.wordpress.com #timeflies
- Reposted by Memming Park🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina
- New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/13
- Reposted by Memming ParkMy department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social
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- How can I accelerate breakdown of caffeine in my body? I will need to increase CYP1A2 (P450) activity (without smoking). Vigorous exercise over 30 days was shown to increase it up to 70%? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....
- Learning a lot while preparing for a lecture on RNNs for neuroscience.
- according to last.fm, my favourite artist of 2025 was #LauraThorn. Scrobbled 493/5728 times (just one song; La poupée monte le son). 0.01% of fans worldwide for the song. Of 2672 unique tracks I listened to. Also #1 on Beatrice Rana's Goldberg Variations album.
- Highlights of 2025 Ayesha Vermani defended her PhD thesis this year. She helped jump start a new direction in integrative neuroscience: Vermani et al. (2025), Meta-dynamical state space models for integrative neural data analysis. ICLR 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=SRp... 👉 youtu.be/SiXxPmkpYF8
- I admire all who have donated and will donate to OpenReview. Thank you.
- Reposted by Memming ParkToday, the NeurIPS Foundation is proud to announce a $500,000 donation to OpenReview, supporting the infrastructure that makes modern ML research possible. blog.neurips.cc/2025/12/15/s...
- Fully-funded International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme🧠 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud... Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!
- INDP includes an initial year of advanced coursework 📚 + three lab rotations 🔬, followed by PhD research. We welcome talented, motivated applicants from neuroscience, as well as physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, electrical/biomedical engineering ⚙️, and related quantitative fields.
- One advantage of monosemantic, sharply-tuned, grandmother-cell, axis-aligned, neuron-centric representation as opposed to polysemantic, mixed-selective, oblique population code is that it can benefit from evolution. Genes are good at operating at the cell level. #neuroscience
- Some of my favorites from #NeurIPS2025 more neg max Lyapunov exp => faster parallelized RNN convergence Gonzalez, X., Kozachkov, L., Zoltowski, D. M., Clarkson, K. L., & Linderman, S. Predictability Enables Parallelization of Nonlinear State Space Models.
- This was a fantastic poster presentation!
- Melanie Mitchell's keynote reminds us that it is not easy to evaluate intelligence (AI, babies, animals, etc) and benchmarks can be VERY misleading. #NeurIPS2025
- #NeurIPS2025 For diffusion models, full optimization leads to memorization, but intermediate amount of optimization (easier to do when you have more data) leads to generalization! This is a clear example where more optimization on the training objective is demonstrably worse.
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- I’m having a blast!
- Virtual live-streaming tickets are 20 euros!
- I'm very proud of @ayeshavermani.bsky.social!!
- Reposted by Memming ParkOur new paper is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences; a perspective paper on the DMN, titled "Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Excellent list of speakers! Come join the symposium at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Register now. #neurocybernetics #computationalNeuroscience
- I spent less than 1 day Vibe coding. I didn't read or touch any code yet the outcome is quite remarkably good. I never coded in typescript (I used ECMA/Javascript back in the 90s) and made a usable chrome broswer extension only with some natural langauge. I just submitted it to the chrome webstore.
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- Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium? Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics
- "There may have been times when developments in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, or cognitive psychology seduced researchers into believing that their disciplines was on the verge of discovering the secret of intelligence. But a humbling history of hopes disappointed [...]"
- Alfred Tarski and Kurt Gödel in 1935, Vienna. Not the first time, since they first met in 1930 in Vienna. From: digicoll.lib.berkele... #logician
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- #COSYNE2025 tutorial by Eva Dyer. Foundations of Transformers in Neuroscience youtu.be/CqS_sIrMZ2A... Materials: cosyne-tutorial-2025...
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- If you are at #COSYNE2025 today, I'm excited to suggest & self-promote work by amazing Ayesha Vermani. Poster session (Thu) 1-030: Meta-Dynamical State Space Models for Integrative Neural Data Analysis Also ICLR'25 manuscript: openreview.net/forum...
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- Interesting conversations! :) I believe in Understanding. Never give up, never surrender!
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- Looking for the best systems #neuroscience #phd program? Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown has one! #PhDposition = fully funded. US-style lab rotations and an awesome community in Lisbon, Portugal. Apply by the end of Jan, 2025. bit.ly/4iB9SwP
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