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Eilif B. Muller

Eilif B. Muller

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Canada CIFAR AI Chair

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Université de Montréal

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About

Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2020

Eilif Muller is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila an IVADO associate research professor in the department of neurosciences at the Université de Montréal, and a principle investigator of the Architectures of Biological Learning Lab (ABL-Lab) at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center. 

Muller’s research tackles a fundamental mystery at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence: how sensory perception is learned in the neocortex. Integrating the latest empirical advances in our understanding of the synaptic, dendritic, and circuit physiology of the neocortex, the ABL-Lab leverages a synergy of biophysical simulations of neocortical circuits and functional deep convolutional networks to explore a radically new dendritic perspective on the processes of neocortical learning. 

He seeks to understand how the neocortex can learn continually from only a few labeled examples and robustly generalize to others, and provide new inspiration to solve these open challenges in the field of deep learning.

Relevant Publications

  • Ecker, A., Santander, D. E., Abdellah, M., Alonso, J. B., Bolaños-Puchet, S., Chindemi, G., Isbister, J. B., King, J. G., Kumbhar, P., Magkanaris, I., Muller, E. B., & Reimann, M. W. (2024). Long-term plasticity induces sparse and specific synaptic changes in a biophysically detailed cortical model
  • Reimann, M. W., Santander, D. E., Ecker, A., & Muller, E. B. (2023). Specific inhibition and disinhibition in the higher-order structure of a cortical connectome
  • Chindemi, G., Abdellah, M., Amsalem, O., Benavides-Piccione, R., Delattre, V., Doron, M., … & Müller, E. B. (2020). A calcium-based plasticity model predicts long-term potentiation and depression in the neocortex.

  • Markram, H., Muller, E., Ramaswamy, S., Reimann, M. W., Abdellah, M., Sanchez, C. A., … & Schürmann, F. (2015). Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry. Cell, 163(2), 456-492.

Institution

CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center

Mila

Université de Montréal

Department

Department of Neuroscience

Education

  • Dr. rer. nat. (Physics), Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
  • MSc (Physics), Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
  • BSc (Mathematical Physics), Simon Fraser University

Country

Canada

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