Professor Eleni Vasilaki

DPhil, CEng, MIET

School of Computer Science

Chair in Bioinspired Machine Learning

Head of the Machine Learning research group

Member of the Complex Systems Modelling research group

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Professor Eleni Vasilaki
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Eleni graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics and Telecommunications and a Master’s degree in Microelectronics from the University of Athens, before taking her DPhil (PhD) at Sussex, in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

From 2004 to 2006 she worked at the University of Bern and from 2007 to 2009 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). In 2009 she joined the University of Sheffield as Lecturer, where she is Professor since 2016.

Research interests

Bioinspired Machine Learning, Neuromorphic Computing, Computational Neuroscience   

Eleni and her team take inspiration from biological principles to design novel, machine learning techniques, and in particular reinforcement learning and reservoir computing methods. They also work closely with material scientists and engineers to design hardware that computes in a brain-like manner. 

Publications

Journal articles

  • Manneschi L, Vidamour IT, Stenning KD, Swindells C, Venkat G, Griffin D, Gui L, Sonawala D, Donskikh D, Hariga D , Donati E et al (2025) . Nature Communications, 16(1).
  • Stenning KD, Gartside JC, Manneschi L, Cheung CTS, Chen T, Vanstone A, Love J, Holder H, Caravelli F, Kurebayashi H , Everschor-Sitte K et al (2024) . Nature Communications, 15.
  • Manneschi L, Vidamour IT, Stenning KD, Gartside JC, Swindells C, Venkat G, Griffin D, Stepney S, Branford WR, Hayward TJ , Ellis MO et al (2024) Optimising network interactions through device agnostic models.. CoRR, abs/2401.07387.
  • Mehonic A, Frenkel C & Vasilaki E (2023) Editorial: Focus issue on energy-efficient neuromorphic devices, systems and algorithms.. Neuromorph. Comput. Eng., 3, 40201-40201.
  • Mehonic A, Frenkel C & Vasilaki E (2023) . Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 3(4).
  • Vidamour IT, Swindells C, Venkat G, Manneschi L, Fry PW, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson RM, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi SS , Vasilaki E et al (2023) . Communications Physics, 6(1).
  • Ellis MOA, Welbourne A, Kyle SJ, Fry PW, Allwood DA, Hayward TJ & Vasilaki E (2023) Machine learning using magnetic stochastic synapses.. Neuromorph. Comput. Eng., 3, 21001-21001.
  • Han C, English G, Saal HP, Indiveri G, Gilra A, von der Behrens W & Vasilaki E (2023) . PLOS Computational Biology, 19(5).
  • Manneschi L, Lin AC & Vasilaki E (2023) SpaRCe: Improved Learning of Reservoir Computing Systems Through Sparse Representations.. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., 34, 824-838.
  • Allwood DA, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Hayward TJ, Manneschi L, Musameh MFKH, O'Keefe S, Stepney S, Swindells C, Trefzer MA , Vasilaki E et al (2023) . Applied Physics Letters, 122(4).
  • Whelan MT, Jimenez-Rodriguez A, Prescott TJ & Vasilaki E (2023) . Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(1).
  • Vidamour I, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Venkat G, Swindells C, Dawidek RWS, Broomhall TJ, Steinke N-J, Cooper J, Maccherozzi F , Dhesi S et al (2022) . Nanotechnology, 33(48).
  • Manneschi L, Gigante G, Vasilaki E & Del Giudice P (2022) . PLoS Computational Biology, 18(8).
  • Vouros A, Gehring TV, Jura B, WÄ™sierska MJ, Wójcik DK & Vasilaki E (2022) . Scientific Reports, 12.
  • Gaurav A, Song X, Manhas S, Gilra A, Vasilaki E, Roy P & De Souza MM (2022) . Frontiers in Electronics, 3.
  • Ozdemir A, Scerri M, Barron AB, Philippides A, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Manneschi L (2022) . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 4520-4527.
  • Abdelrahman NY, Vasilaki E & Lin AC (2021) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(49).
  • Vanattou-Saïfoudine N, Han C, Krause R, Vasilaki E, von der Behrens W & Indiveri G (2021) . Scientific Reports, 11(1).
  • Ababei RV, Ellis MOA, Vidamour IT, Devadasan DS, Allwood DA, Vasilaki E & Hayward TJ (2021) . Scientific Reports, 11(1).
  • Vouros A, Langdell S, Croucher M & Vasilaki E (2021) . Machine Learning, 110(8), 1975-2003.
  • Welbourne A, Levy ALR, Ellis MOA, Chen H, Thompson MJ, Vasilaki E, Allwood DA & Hayward TJ (2021) . Applied Physics Letters, 118(20).
  • Nizinska K, Szydlowska K, Vouros A, Kiryk A, Stepniak A, Vasilaki E & Lukasiuk K (2021) . Scientific Reports, 11.
  • MaBouDi H, Barron AB, Li S, Honkanen M, Loukola OJ, Peng F, Li W, Marshall JAR, Cope A, Vasilaki E & Solvi C (2021) . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1945).
  • Dawidek RW, Hayward TJ, Vidamour IT, Broomhall TJ, Venkat G, Mamoori MA, Mullen A, Kyle SJ, Fry PW, Steinke N , Cooper JFK et al (2021) . Advanced Functional Materials, 31(15).
  • Vouros A & Vasilaki E (2021) . Pattern Recognition Letters, 142, 65-71.
  • Manneschi L, Ellis MOA, Gigante G, Lin AC, Giudice PD & Vasilaki E (2020) Exploiting Multiple Timescales in Hierarchical Echo State Networks.. Frontiers Appl. Math. Stat., 6, 616658-616658.
  • Manneschi L & Vasilaki E (2020) . Nature Machine Intelligence, 2(3), 155-156.
  • Huzard D, Vouros A, Monari S, Astori S, Vasilaki E & Sandi C (2020) . Stress, 23(1), 37-49.
  • Mehonic A, Sebastian A, Rajendran B, Simeone O, Vasilaki E & Kenyon AJ (2020) Memristors - From In-Memory Computing, Deep Learning Acceleration, and Spiking Neural Networks to the Future of Neuromorphic and Bio-Inspired Computing.. Adv. Intell. Syst., 2, 2000085-2000085.
  • Chhabria K, Vouros A, Gray C, MacDonald RB, Jiang Z, Wilkinson RN, Plant K, Vasilaki E, Howarth C & Chico TJA (2019) . Disease Models and Mechanisms, 12(9).
  • Vouros A, Gehring TV, Szydlowska K, Janusz A, Tu Z, Croucher M, Lukasiuk K, Konopka W, Sandi C & Vasilaki E (2018) . Scientific Reports, 8.
  • Cope AJ, Vasilaki E, Minors D, Sabo C, Marshall JAR & Barron AB (2018) . PLoS Computational Biology, 14(9).
  • Gehring TV, Wesierska MJ, Wójcik DK & Vasilaki E (2017) .
  • Cope AJ, Sabo C, Vasilaki E, Barron AB & Marshall JA (2017) . PLoS One, 12(2).
  • Cope AJ, Sabo C, Gurney K, Vasilaki E & Marshall JAR (2016) . PLoS Comput Biol, 12(5).
  • Berdan R, Vasilaki E, Khiat A, Indiveri G, Serb A & Prodromakis P (2016) . Scientific Reports, 6(-), ---.
  • Barron AB, Gurney KN, Meah LFS, Vasilaki E & Marshall JAR (2015) . Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9.
  • Esposito U, Giugliano M & Vasilaki E (2015) . Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 8.
  • Esposito U, Giugliano M, van Rossum M & Vasilaki E (2014) . PLoS ONE, 9(7).
  • Mahmud M, Pulizzi R, Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2014) . Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 8, 26-26.
  • Tomkins A, Vasilaki E, Beste C, Gurney K & Humphries MD (2014) . Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 7(-), ---.
  • Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2014) . PLoS ONE, 9(1).
  • Richmond P, Buesing L, Giugliano M & Vasilaki E (2011) . PLoS One, 6(5), e18539.
  • Clopath C, Büsing L, Vasilaki E & Gerstner W (2010) . Nat Neurosci, 13(3), 344-352.
  • Vasilaki E, Frémaux N, Urbanczik R, Senn W & Gerstner W (2009) . PLoS Comput Biol, 5(12), e1000586.
  • Schäfer R, Vasilaki E & Senn W (2009) . PLoS Comput Biol, 5(12), e1000617.
  • Clopath C, Ziegler L, Buesing L, Vasilaki E & Gerstner W (2009) . BMC Neuroscience, 10(S1).
  • Vladimirskiy BB, Vasilaki E, Urbanczik R & Senn W (2009) . Biol Cybern, 100(4), 319-330.
  • Vasilaki E, Fusi S, Wang XJ & Senn W (2009) . Biol Cybern, 100(2), 147-158.
  • Clopath C, Ziegler L, Vasilaki E, Büsing L & Gerstner W (2008) . PLoS Comput Biol, 4(12), e1000248.
  • Schäfer R, Vasilaki E & Senn W (2007) . PLoS Comput Biol, 3(8), e165.
  • Feng JF, Chen XJ, Tuckwell HC & Vasilaki E (2004) Some optimal stochastic control problems in neuroscience - A review. MOD PHYS LETT B, 18(21-22), 1067-1085.
  • Vasilaki E, Feng JF & Buxton H (2003) Towards a Spatio-Temporal Album. WSEAS Trans. on Systems, 2(4), 941-947.
  • Vasilaki E (2003) A biologically inspired dynamic model for vision..
  • Vasilaki E, Feng J & Buxton H (2003) . IEEE Trans Neural Netw, 14(2), 439-443.
  • Vidamour IT, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Venkat G, Swindells C, Dawidek RWS, Broomhall TJ, Steinke N-J, Cooper JFK, Maccherozzi F , Dhesi SS et al () Quantifying the computational capability of a nanomagnetic reservoir computing platform with emergent magnetization dynamics.
  • Mehonic A, Sebastian A, Rajendran B, Simeone O, Vasilaki E & Kenyon AJ () Memristors -- from In-memory computing, Deep Learning Acceleration, Spiking Neural Networks, to the Future of Neuromorphic and Bio-inspired Computing.
  • Gehring T, Luksys G, Sandi C & Vasilaki E () . Scientific Reports, 5.
  • Vasilaki E, Frémaux N, Urbanczik R, Senn W & Gerstner W () . PLoS Computational Biology, 5(12).
  • Clopath C, Büsing L, Vasilaki E & Gerstner W () . Nature Precedings.

Conference proceedings

  • De Souza MM, Song X, Gaurav A, Manhas SK, Pillai PB, Sikdar S, Kumar A, Gilra A & Vasilaki E (2023) . 2023 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC) (pp 139-140). Paestum, Italy, 22 October 2023 - 22 October 2023.
  • Song X, Gaurav A, Pillai PB, Kumar A, Manhas S, Gilra A, Vasilaki E & de Souza MM (2023) . 2023 IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) (pp 1-3). San Jose, USA, 13 August 2023 - 13 August 2023.
  • Hayward TJ, Vidamour IT, Ellis MO, Welbourne A, Dawidek RW, Broomhall TJ, Chambard M, Drouhin M, Keogh AM, Mullen A , Kyle SJ et al (2021) . Spintronics XIV (pp 59-59), 1 August 2021 - 5 August 2021.
  • Whelan MT, Prescott TJ & Vasilaki E (2020) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 9th International Conference, Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, July 28–30, 2020, Proceedings(12413) (pp 390-401). Freiburg, Germany, 28 July 2020 - 28 July 2020.
  • Whelan MT, Vasilaki E & Prescott TJ (2019) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 277-286). Nara, Japan, 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
  • Sabo C, Yavuz E, Cope A, Gurney K, Vasilaki E, Nowotny T & Marshall JAR (2017) . 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp 4171-4178). Anchorage, Alaska
  • Sabo C, Cope A, Gurney K, Vasilaki E & Marshall JAR (2016) . AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA SciTech. San Diego, CA, 4 January 2016 - 4 January 2016.
  • Gehring T, Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2015) . Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Milan, Italy, 25 August 2015 - 25 August 2015.
  • Cope A, Sabo C, Vasilaki E, Gurney K & Marshall JAR (2015) . BMC Neuroscience, Vol. 16(S1)
  • Mahmud M, Pulizzi R, Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2014) . 2014 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (pp 1-6), 10 April 2014 - 12 April 2014.
  • Mahmud M, Pulizzi R & Vasilaki E (2014) A Web-Based Framework for Semi-Online Parallel Processing of Extracellular Neuronal Signals Recorded by Microelectrode Arrays. MEA Meeting 2014, 9th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Microelectrode Arrays, 1 July 2014 - 4 July 2014.
  • Mahmud M, Pulizzi R, Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2014) QSpikeTools: An Open Source Toolbox for Parallel Batch Processing of Extracellular Neuronal Signals Recorded. 2014 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICEEICT 2014)
  • Serb A, Berdan R, Khiat A, Li SLW, Vasilaki E, Papavasiliou C & Prodromakis T (2014) Memristors as synapse emulators in the context of event-based computation. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • Cope A, Sabo C, Yavuz E, Gurney K, Marshall J, Nowotny T & Vasilaki E (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 362-363)
  • Beste C, Tomkins A, Vasilaki E, Saft C, Gurney K & Humphries M (2012) . JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 83 (pp A37-A38)
  • Tomkins A, Humphries MD, Beste C, Vasilaki E & Gurney KN (2012) . ICANN (1), Vol. 7552 (pp 185-192)
  • Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2012) . ICANN (1), Vol. 7552 (pp 193-200)
  • Tomkins A, Humphries M, Vasilaki E, Gurney K & Beste C (2011) How degrading networks can increase select cognitive functions. Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference 2011. Freiburg, Germany, 4 October 2011.
  • Clopath C, Buesing L, Vasilaki E & Gerstner W (2010) Why is connectivity in barrel cortex different from that in visual cortex? - A plasticity model. COSYNE Computational and Systems Neuroscience. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., 25 February 2010.
  • Vladimirskiy BB, Vasilaki E, Urbanczik R & Senn W (2007) Pattern sampling-based reinforcement learning via homeostatic plasticity and Hebbian tagging. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.
  • Vladimirski B, Vasilaki E & Senn W (2006) Hebbian reinforcement learning with stochastic binary synapses follows the reward gradient. The Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Edinbourgh, UK.
  • Berdan R, Prodromakis T, Khiat A, Salaoru I, Toumazou C, Perez-Diaz F & Vasilaki E () Temporal Processing with Volatile Memristors. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2013. Beijing, China, 19 May 2013 - 23 May 2013.
  • Vasilaki E & Giugliano M () Do synaptic dynamics and STDP govern connectivity motifs?. Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference 2011. Freiburg, Germany, 4 October 2011.
  • Vasilaki E, Urbanczik R, Senn W & Gerstner W () Spike-based reinforcement in continuous state and action space. Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning. Montreal, Quebec, Canada., 18 June 2009.
  • Vasilaki E, Urbanczik R, Senn W & Gerstner W () Spike-based reinforcement learning of navigation. The Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA, 19 July 2008.
  • Vasilaki E, Urbanczik R, Senn W & Gerstner W () Spike-based reinforcement learning of navigation. The Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA, 19 July 2008.
  • Clopath C, Buesing L, Vasilaki E & Gerstner W () A unified voltage-based model for STDP, LTP and LTD. COSYNE Computational and Systems Neuroscience. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., 22 February 2007.
  • Vasilaki E, Fusi S, Wang XJ & Senn W () Learning and forgetting visuo-motor associations with a multi-layer neural network. Brain Inspired Cognitive systems. Molyvos, Island of Lesvos, Greece, 12 October 2006.
  • Schaefer R, Vasilaki E & Senn W () Perceptual learning by modifying top-down connections to V1. The Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting. Edinbourgh, UK
  • Vasilaki E, Fusi S, Wang XJ & Senn W () A Hebbian reinforcement learning algorithm reproducing monkey performances in visuo-motor learning task. COSYNE Computational and Systems Neuroscience. Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Vasilaki E, Feng JF & Buxton H () Processing Static Visual Information with IF-networks. Proceedings of the 12th Danish Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 1 August 2003.
  • Vassilakis H, Howel AJ & Buxton H () Comparison of Feedforward (TDRBF) and Generative (TDRGBN) Network for Gesture Based Control. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 2298
  • Gaiseanu F, Tsoukalas D, Tsamis C, Stoemenos J, Dimitriadis CA & Vasilaki E () Analysis Of Phosphorus Diffusion In the Polysilicon/Oxide/Silicon System Under Oxidizing Conditions For Profile Simulation. 194th Meeting, Electrochemical Society. Boston, MA.

Software, code or databases

  • Vouros A, Gehring T, Croucher M & Vasilaki E .
  • MaBouDi H, Barron A, Marshall J, Cope A, Vasilaki E & Solvi C .

Preprints

  • Vasilaki E (2025) , arXiv.
  • Vidamour I, Manneschi L, Stenning K, Swindells C, Venkat G, Hariga D, Griffin D, Stepney S, Branford W, Gartside J , Hayward T et al (2024) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Han C, Basu D, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Gilra A (2024) , arXiv.
  • Manneschi L, Vidamour IT, Stenning KD, Swindells C, Venkat G, Griffin D, Gui L, Sonawala D, Donskikh D, Hariga D , Stepney S et al (2024) , arXiv.
  • Ellis MOA, Welbourne A, Kyle SJ, Fry PW, Allwood DA, Hayward TJ & Vasilaki E (2023) , arXiv.
  • Allwood DA, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Hayward TJ, Manneschi L, Musameh MFK, O'Keefe S, Stepney S, Swindells C, Trefzer MA , Vasilaki E et al (2022) , arXiv.
  • Stenning K, Gartside J, Manneschi L, Cheung C, Chen T, Vanstone A, Love J, Holder H, Caravelli F, Everschor-Sitte K , Vasilaki E et al (2022) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Stenning KD, Gartside JC, Manneschi L, Cheung CTS, Chen T, Vanstone A, Love J, Holder HH, Caravelli F, Kurebayashi H , Everschor-Sitte K et al (2022) , arXiv.
  • Vidamour I, Swindells C, Venkat G, Manneschi L, Fry P, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson R, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi S , Vasilaki E et al (2022) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Vidamour I, Swindells C, Venkat G, Manneschi L, Fry P, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson R, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi S , Vasilaki E et al (2022) , arXiv.
  • Han C, English G, Saal HP, Indiveri G, Gilra A, von der Behrens W & Vasilaki E (2021) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Manneschi L, Gicante G, Del Giudice P & Vasilaki E (2021) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Ababei RV, Ellis MOA, Vidamour IT, Devadasan DS, Allwood DA, Vasilaki E & Hayward TJ (2021) , Research Square Platform LLC.
  • Whelan MT, Prescott TJ & Vasilaki E (2021) , arXiv.
  • Manneschi L, Ellis MOA, Gigante G, Lin AC, Del Giudice P & Vasilaki E (2021) , arXiv.
  • Mehonic A, Sebastian A, Rajendran B, Simeone O, Vasilaki E & Kenyon AJ (2020) , arXiv.
  • Vouros A & Vasilaki E (2020) , arXiv.
  • Manneschi L, Lin AC & Vasilaki E (2019) , arXiv.
  • Vouros A, Langdell S, Croucher M & Vasilaki E (2019) , arXiv.
  • Chhabria K, Vouros A, Gray C, MacDonald RB, Jiang Z, Wilkinson RN, Plant K, Vasilaki E, Howarth C & Chico TJA (2019) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Huzard D, Vouros A, Monari S, Astori S, Vasilaki E & Sandi C (2019) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Vouros A, Gehring TV, Szydlowska K, Janusz A, Croucher M, Lukasiuk K, Konopka W, Sandi C, Tu Z & Vasilaki E (2017) , arXiv.
  • Vasilaki E (2017) , arXiv.
  • Berdan R, Vasilaki E, Khiat A, Indiveri G, Serb A & Prodromakis T (2015) , arXiv.
  • Vasilaki E & Giugliano M (2013) , arXiv.
Grants
  • MARCH: , EPSRC, 02/2021 - 07/2025, £936,815, as Co-PI
  • ActiveAI - , EPSRC, 11/2019 - 10/2024, £953,584, as Co-PI
  • Modeling probabilistic reinforcement learning and variable behaviour in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Google, 05/2018 - 12/2025, £50,769, as PI
  • CausalXRL: , EPSRC, 02/2021 - 07/2024, £309,915, as PI
  • From Stochasticity to Functionality: , EPSRC, 04/2019 - 11/2023, £755,424, as Co-PI
  • Alexa Fellowship, Amazon, 08/2018 - 08/2021, £73,000, as Co-PI
  • , EPSRC, 12/2016 - 12/2021, £2,128,934, as Co-P
  • From synaptic plasticity to cortical neuronal networks emergent behaviour, Royal Society, 06/2010 - 05/2012, £8,450, as PI
  • The cortical representation of low-probability stimuli and its neuromorphic implementation, The Wellcome Trust, 09/2016 - 04/2021, £246,222, as PI
  • , EC FP7, 10/2011 - 09/2015, £215,509, as PI
  • , EPSRC, 03/2013 - 08/2016, £660,561, as Co-PI
  • Memristive Dynamics, EPSRC, 05/2012 - 02/2013, £17,271, as PI
Professional activities and memberships

Inge Strauch Visiting Professor by the University of Zurich (1 September 2021-28 February 2022). 

One of the Academic editors of Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, PLOS ONE and PeerJ.

Advisory Board Member for the research Centre For Emergent Algorithmic Intelligence at the University of Mainz, Germany, since 2019.

More than 50 invited talks, including international leading Institutions, e.g. IIT Roorkee, India (2020), Nature Conference for Neuromorphic Computing, Beijing, China (2019), European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN), Paris (2018), Beijing Institute of Technology, China (2017), University of Oxford, UK (2016), Imperial College, UK (2015), University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy (2014), ETH Zurich & University of Zurich, Switzerland (2013), Columbia University, USA (2013) and keynote talks (e.g. International Multi-Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology (M-CAIT2021).