NEUROCYBERNETICS Team

Connecting Neuronal Hyperexcitability and Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using biophysically-informed in-silico brain simulations and experimental data from mouse models of AD

• PI (USA): Prof. Alex Leow (University Of Illinois Chicago), Prof. Orly Lazarov (University Of Illinois Chicago) and Prof. Liang Zhan (University of Pittsburgh)

• Co-PI (France): Prof. Thanos Manos

• Funding: Mice experiments, postdoc & PhD positions in the respective universities (~2.34 Million euros)

Grounding Meanings in Intrinsic Social Motivations for Language Models

• PI: Laura Cohen

• Funding: PhD student, 4 interns

• Other partners: Julia Ive (University College London), Sao Mai Nguyen (ENSTA)

Towards characterising and extending the operating domain of autonomous vehicles: a neurorobotic approach

• Supervisors: O. Romain, N. Cuperlier (S. Pechberti/VEDECOM)
• Funding: PhD Student M. Thabet

MPNAV: visual  neurorobotic architecture for the control of an autonomous vehicle

• Funding: Engineer Damien Frechou

Sensorimotor integration of variability during the learning of birdsong

• PI: Sébastien Derégnaucourt (Ethologie Cognition Développement laboratory
• Project member at ETIS: Alexandre Pitti and Sofiane Boucenna
• Other Partners: PRC CNRS NLECD, Neuro_PSI and LS2N laboratories

Autism, a robot to encourage and develop skills

• PI: Sofiane Boucenna
• Other Partners:  David Cohen (APHP, Pitié Salpêtrière), Mohamed Chetaouni (Sorbonne universtité, ISIR), Charline Grossard (Université de Lorraine) and Annie Gentes (CY ecole de design).

SOCIAL BAT DRONE

• Supervisors: P. Gaussier, N. Cuperlier

  Funding: PhD student Aëlien Moubèc

Computational modelling of language learning in robots: the development of meaning potentials in social and emotional contexts

• Supervisors:  Lola Cañamero, Laura Cohen
• Co-host team: Ann Nowé ( Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB) 
• Funding: PhD student Z. Lemhaouri

Hybrid Neural Networks: combining artificial and spiking neural networks to enhance life-long continuous learning in autonomous agents and robots

• Funding Postodoc Fellow: Dr. Cristian Jimenez-Romero
• Primary supervisor: Thanos Manos
• Co-host team: Yulia Timofeeva & Hongkai Wen (University of Warwick, UK)
• Project collaborators at NEUROCYBER team: Mathias Quoy, Nicolas Cuperlier, Philippe Gaussier

Slow and low dimensional dynamics in the brain

• PI: Alessandro Torcini (LTPM)
• Project members at ETIS: Thanos Manos & Mathias Quoy
• Other partners: G. Mongilllo, A. Ferrara (Institut de la Vision, Paris), A. Bacci, A. Aguirre and J. Zorrilla de San Martin (Institut du Cerveau, Paris), S. Olmi (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi CNR (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), F. Tixidre (LPTM)
• Funding: PhD candidate Alejandro Calleja Carballosa (LPTM)

Space-SNN (IPAL: NUS/CNRS/CY) 

• PI: B. Cotterau (Cerco) and Robby Tan (NUS)
• Project member at ETIS: Nicolas Cuperlier
• Funding: PhD Student Geoffroy Keime (co-supervised with B. Cottereau)

Leveraging neurocomputational models to extract the intracerebral conduction velocity as a novel non-invasive marker of information processing speed in multiple sclerosis

• Partners: CY Cergy Paris University, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Supervisors: Thanos Manos (ETIS) & Van.Schependom (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
• Funding: PhD student Gaia Zin

• PI: Stéphane Raffard (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
• Project member at ETIS: Ghiles Mostafaoui
• Other partners:  les laboratoires Euromov (Ludovic Marin), Epsylone (Stephane Raffard) et l’ISIR (Catherine Pelachaud), ainsi que le CHU de Montpellier
• Funding: PhD student Quitterie Pilon (co-supervised with C. Pelachaud),Tifenn Fauviaux

Embodied intelligence in robotic arms: leveraging human-inspired morphology for intra- and interpersonal coordination

• Primary supervisor: Ghiles Mostafaoui
• Co-host team: Tom Verstraten (Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB)
• Funding: PhD student Maxime Marchal

Neural network structure, onset and propagation of epileptic seizures

• Partners: CY Cergy Paris University, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Supervisors: Thanos Manos, Mathias Quoy (ETIS) & Yulia Timofeeva (University of Warwick)
• Funding: PhD student Juliette Courson

Bio-inspired algorithms for robotic control (Cobot)

• PI: Philippe Gaussier
  – with the startup Robocolle
• Funding: Engineern Mingda Ju

Embodied intelligence in robotic arms: leveraging human-inspired morphology for intra- and interpersonal coordinationepileptic seizures

• Partners: CY Cergy Paris University, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Primary supervisor: :Ghiles Mostafaoui
• Co-host team: Tom Verstraten (Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB)
  * 2022-2026:ANR Project Enhancer 
• Funding: PhD student Engineern Mingda Ju