Dr
Aditya
Gilra

PhD

School of Computer Science

Visiting academic

Neuroscience Institute Liaison

Member of the Machine Learning research group

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Dr Aditya Gilra
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello

Sheffield

S1 4DP

Profile

Dr. Aditya Gilra was a Lecturer (=Assistant Professor) in the Machine Learning Group at the School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK, since January 2020.

Earlier, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the groups of:  at the , in 2019;  at the , Germany, in 2018; and  at the , Switzerland, in 2015-2017.

He has a background in Computational Neuroscience (PhD - , Bangalore, India with ), Physics (Master's - , Mumbai, India) and Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Bachelor's - , Chennai, India).

Research interests

Dr. Aditya Gilra is interested in how the brain learns motor and cognitive tasks. His research lies at the interface of computational neuroscience, control theory and machine learning. Check out .

Publications

Journal articles

  • Klos C, Kalle Kossio YF, Goedeke S, Gilra A & Memmesheimer RM (2020) . Physical review letters, 125(8), 088103.
  • Rikhye RV, Gilra A & Halassa MM (2018) . Nature Neuroscience, 21(12), 1753-1763.
  • Martinolli M, Gerstner W & Gilra A (2018) . Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 12.
  • Gilra A & Gerstner W (2017) . eLife, 6.
  • Gilra A & Bhalla US (2015) . PLoS ONE, 10(5).
  • Cole N, Harvey M, Myers-Joseph D, Gilra A & Khan AG () . Nature Communications, 15(1).

Conference proceedings

  • Gilra A & Gerstner W (2018) Non-linear motor control by local learning in spiking neural networks. 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2018, Vol. 4 (pp 2855-2864)
  • Gilra A (2009) . Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 174 (pp 012040-012040)
  • Gilra A, Gokhroo V & Unnikrishnan CS (2007) . The Nature of Light: What Are Photons?

Preprints

  • Han C, English G, Saal HP, Indiveri G, Gilra A, von der Behrens W & Vasilaki E () .
Grants
  • CausalXRL: Causal eXplanations in Reinforcement Learning, EPSRC, 02/2021 - 01/2024, £309,915, as PI

Links

Machine Learning research group