Lukas Braun
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- DPhil Candidate, Saxe Lab, University of Oxford ↗ October 2020 to present
- Computational Neuroscience M.Sc., Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin ↗ October 2018 - September 2020
- Cognitive Science B.Sc., University of Osnabrück ↗ October 2014 – September 2018
Publications
Braun L, Dominé CCJ, Fitzgerald JE, Saxe AM. (2022) Exact learning dynamics of deep linear networks with prior knowledge. NeurIPS 2022 Paper ↗
Braun L, Vogels TP (2021) Online Learning Of Neural Computations From Sparse Temporal Feedback. NeurIPS 2021 Paper ↗ Code ↗
Nelli SM, Braun L, Dumbalska T, Saxe A, Summerfield C (2021) Neural knowledge assembly in humans and deep networks. BioRxiv Preprint ↗
Drews MS, Leonhardt A, Pirogova N, Richter FG, Schuetzenberger A, Braun L, Serbe E, Borst A (2020) Dynamic signal compression for robust motion vision in flies. Current Biology Open Access ↗
Research Experience
- Intern, Vogels Lab, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford ↗ August – October 2019
- Intern, Department of Circuits, Computation and Models, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology ↗ July – October 2017
- Research Assistant, Bray Neuroimaging Lab, University of Calgary, Canada ↗ July – October 2016
- Intern, Department of Circuits, Computation and Models, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology ↗ February – March 2016
- Research Assistant, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Osnabrück ↗ July 2015 – June 2016
Teaching Experience
- Lecturer, Implementing Artificial Neural Networks with TensorFlow (8 ECTS Lecture) October 2017 – February 2018
- Lecturer, Implementing Artificial Neural Networks with TensorFlow (4 ECTS Seminar) October 2016 – February 2017
Scholarships, Awards and Grants
- NENS Exchange Grant awarded by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies ↗ October 2019
- Deutschlandstipendium awarded by the Institute of Technology Berlin ↗ October 2018 to September 2020
- DAAD Rise-Worldwide Scholarship Full scholarship for a research internship in Canada ↗ July – October 2016
- Cognitive Farming Hackathon First price ↗ December 2016
Professional Experience
- Co-Founder, skunkit U.G. (haftungsbeschränkt) ↗ 2012 – December 2015