Saad Idrees @sidrees88
NeuroAI Scientist | Senior Research Scientist in JZlab, York University, Toronto Co-founder Chishm Foundation, Pakistan chishm.org Toronto, Canada Joined March 2019-
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Saccadic suppression was demonstrated in many species. In a new paper, using modeling and matched experimental paradigms in fish and primates, we explored the reasons for why saccadic suppression strength might be different in different organisms. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
A paper from my postdoc is out! nature.com/articles/s4146… How does the premotor cortex reuse the neural representation of single finger movements for simultaneous, multi-finger movements? TLDR: Ensemble activity for simultaneous movements can be explained by linear summation of corresponding single-finger movements and magnitude normalization (so that the activity does not blow up as more fingers are moved).
🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard. Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle. We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962 Work by James Walker % @MKhajehnejad 1/6
New paper demonstrating saccadic suppression in zebrafish, as well as an intriguing selectivity for specific stimuli. In upcoming work, we'll also quantitatively compare the zebrafish suppression strength to that in primates. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
OpenAI and DeepSeek’s reasoning LLMs have scored impressively on benchmarks that challenge humans, but how robust are their fundamentals? We test o1-mini & R1 on small-scale graph coloring problems and find limited reliability and signs of issues with non-linear reasoning. (1/10)
We have a new PhD position available. Please spread the word and retweet. The project will combine retina recordings, computational modeling, and optogenetics to help further develop vision restoration therapy. See here for more information: retina.uni-goettingen.de/join-the-lab/
We are happy to announce our first in-house conference! We are preparing an outstanding speakers lineup. Stay tuned!
My lab has a funded PhD position open now. Apply by Nov 30th: linkedin.com/posts/petri-al…
Life update! I’ve joined the Amaranth Foundation as a NeuroAI researcher. I'll work on an ambitious roadmap for neuroscience for AI safety 🎉 1/ amaranth.foundation
Exciting work with @MikeManookin, Fred Rieke, @GregDField, & Joel Zylberberg is now out in @NatureComms! We developed a new ANN with biophysical neural adaptation for better retinal response predictions to dynamic input. nature.com/articles/s4146… #NeuroAI #DeepLearning
Our recent take on a recent paper by Zhang and colleagues on saccadic suppression. journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115… hafedlab.org/2024/07/17/vis…
👏Congratulations to Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel, 2024 Wolf Prize Laureates in Medicine! For more information wolffund.org.il/botond-roska/ wolffund.org.il/jose-alain-sah……… #TranslationalNeuroscience #Optogenetics #IOB
New preprint @biorxiv_neursci w/ @AToliasLab & more Our data-driven deep learning approach in🐭🐒identifies a new rule of contextual modulation in visual cortex Pattern completion/disruption wrt natural image stats = surround facilitation/suppression🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Tübinger Paläogenetiker erhält Preis der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften: Cosimo Posth entschlüsselt die menschliche genetische Vielfalt der Vergangenheit. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Auszeichnung! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/a… #uni_tue #archäologie @Senckenberg @hadw_bw
New paper from the lab 🥳 @NatureNeuro The 'internal compass' can do more than tracking head-direction (HD) 👉 thalamic HD cells respond to sensory stimuli and are modulated by behavioral state (e.g. during social interactions) nature.com/articles/s4159…
Pleased that York PhD grad @BBaltaretu just published her final thesis chapter: "Occipital and parietal cortex participate in a cortical network for transsaccadic discrimination of object shape and orientation"nature.com/articles/s4159…
Araceli Cardenas, a trainee with the @neuron2brain lab @KBI_UHN working with @DrValiante, wows the crowd with a presentation on how intracranial recordings show the positive impact of exercise on cognition. #KrembilResearchDay2023
Exercise modulates human hippocampal-cortical ripple dynamics biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
I am extremely delighted to share that our work on "Multidimensional cerebellar computations for flexible control of movements” is now published in @NatureComms. Many thanks to my coauthors, @sungho_hong_ , @erik_deschutter , Junya Inoue & Peter Thier! nature.com/articles/s4146…
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