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PhDs

Javier Baladron PhD title: Exploring the neural codes using parallel hardware
Doctoral school: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (SFA)
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras
Defense date: June 7, 2013
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Neuro Cognitive Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology
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Gregory Faye PhD title: Symmetry breaking and pattern formation in some neural field equations
Doctoral school: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (SFA)
Supervised by Pascal Chossat and Olivier Faugeras
Defense date: June 11, 2012
Now: Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
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Geoffroy Hermann PhD title: Some mean field equations in neuroscience
Doctoral school: Ecole Doctorale de l'Ecole Polytechnique (EDX)
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras and Jonathan Touboul
Defense date: January 19, 2012
Now: Project Officer at Ministère du Redressement productif
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Romain Veltz PhD title: Nonlinear analysis methods in neural field models
Doctoral school: MSTIC
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras and Renaud Keriven
Defense date: December 16, 2011
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in Salk, working with Terence Sejnowski
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Mathieu Galtier PhD title: A mathematical approach of unsupervised learning in recurrent neural networks
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (STIC)
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras
Defense date: December 13, 2011
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in Jacobs university Bremen, working with Herbert Jaeger
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Juan Carlos Vasquez Betancur PhD title: Analysis of Spike-train Statistics with Gibbs Distributions:Theory, Implementation and Applications
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (STIC)
Supervised by Bruno Cessac and Thierry Vieville
Defense date: March 7, 2011
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in Donders Institute Centre for Neuroscience University of Radboud, Nijmegen, working with Prof. Paul Tiesinga
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Emilien Tlapale PhD title: Modelling the dynamics of contextual motion integration in the primate
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (STIC)
Supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Guillaume Masson
Defense date: January 25, 2011
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in University of California, Irvine (US), working with Barbara Dosher
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Horacio Rostro-Gonzalez PhD title: Computing with spikes, architecture, properties and implementation of emerging paradigms
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (STIC)
Supervised by Thierry Vieville and Bruno Cessac
Defense date: January 24, 2011
Now: Assistant professor at Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Mexique
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Sandrine Chemla PhD title: A biophysical cortical column model for optical signal analysis
Supervised by Thierry Vieville and Frederic Chavanes
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (SFA)
Defense date: February 15, 2010
Now: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the CCBN in the research group of Dr. McNaughton
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Maria-Jose Escobar PhD title: Bio-Inspired Models for Motion Estimation and Analysis: Human action recognition and motion integration
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (STIC)
Supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Guillaume Masson
Defense date: November 15, 2009
Now: Researcher at UTFSM (Chile)
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Francois Grimbert PhD title: Mesoscopic models of cortical structures
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis (SFA)
Defense date: December 2, 2008
Now: Postdoctoral fellow in the Cang's lab at Northwestern University, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
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Jonathan Touboul PhD title: Nonlinear and stochastic models in Neuroscience
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras
Doctoral school: Ecole Polytechnique
Defense date: December 20, 2008
Now: Researcher and leading the Mathematical Neuroscience Group in the CIRB at the Collège de France.
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Pierre Maurel PhD title: Shape gradients, shape warping and medical application to facial expression analysis
Supervised by Olivier Faugeras
Doctoral school: Paris Centre University
Defense date: December 2, 2008
Now: Maitre de conferences in the VisAGeS project team from IRISA (Rennes)
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Adrien Wohrer PhD title: Model and large-scale simulator of a biological retina, with contrast gain control
Doctoral school: Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis
Supervised by Pierre Kornprobst
Defense date: March 15, 2008
Now: Assistant professor at Université d'Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
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