Thirza Dado
Postdoctoral researcher at the Predictive Brain Lab, studying curiosity in humans and AI
Work
Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Neuroscience · Generative Modeling · Neural Coding
Throughout my PhD, I balanced research (~90%) with teaching (~10%) as well as speaking engagements to share and advance knowledge. This is an overview of my endeavors:
Research »
- Le, L., Papale, P., Seeliger, K., Lozano, A., Dado, T., Wang, F., Roelfsema, P.R., van Gerven, M., Güçlütürk, Y. and Güçlü, U. (2024). MonkeySee: Space-time-resolved reconstructions of natural images from macaque multi-unit activity. In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
- Dado, T., Le, L., van Gerven, M., Gucluturk, Y., & Guclu, U. (2024). PAM: Predictive attention mechanism for neural decoding of visual perception. bioRxiv, 2024-06.
- Dado, T., & Güçlü, U. (2024). Get more from less: Differential neural decoding for effective reconstruction of perceived naturalistic stimuli from noisy and scarce neural data. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).
- Dado, T., Papale, P., Lozano, A., Le, L., Wang, F., van Gerven, M., ... & Güçlü, U. (2024). Brain2GAN: Feature-disentangled neural encoding and decoding of visual perception in the primate brain. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(5), e1012058.
- Dado, T., Papale, P., Lozano, A., Le, L., van Gerven, M., Roelfsema, P., Güçlütürk, Y., & Güçlü, U. (2023). Feature-disentangled reconstruction of perception from multi-unit recording. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
- Le, L., Papale, P., Lozano, A., Dado, T., Wang, F., van Gerven, M., Roelfsema, P., Güçlütürk, Y., & Güçlü, U. (2023). End-to-end reconstruction of natural images from multi-unit recordings with Brain2Pix. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
- Dado, T., Güçlütürk, Y., Ambrogioni, L., Ras, G., Bosch, S., van Gerven, M., & Güçlü, U. (2022). Hyperrealistic neural decoding for reconstructing faces from fMRI activations via the GAN latent space. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 141.
- Dado, T., Güçlütürk, Y., Ambrogioni, L., Ras, G., Bosch, S., van Gerven, M., & Güçlü, U. (2021). Hyperrealistic neural decoding of faces. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.
- Güçlü, U. & Dado, T. (2021). Affine feature response transforms. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.
Teaching »
- Tutorial creator ABC Summer School: Neuro-AI 2024
- Teaching assistant ABC Summer School: Neuro-AI 2024
- Guest lecturer Artificial intelligence for neurotechnology 2021 to 2024
- Teaching assistant Deep learning 2021 to 2024
- Teaching assistant Computer graphics and computer vision 2020 to 2024
- Guest lecturer Proefstuderen1 2022
- Member Information and orientation team1 2022
- Teaching assistant Human-computer interaction 2021
- Teaching assistant Brain reading and writing 2020
Speaking engagements »
- Attendee Foraging Conference Lyon, France, 2024
- Speaker CogSci Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024
- Poster presenter 19th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023
- Speaker Department of Brain & Cognition, Psychology, UvA (lab visit) Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023
- Poster presenter Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence Day Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023
- Poster presenter Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Oxford, United Kingdom, 2023
- Poster presenter Donders Poster Session2 Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023
- Student ambassador Women of NeurotechEU3 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023
- Poster presenter 9th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023
- Speaker Max Planck Research Group Vision and Computational Cognition (lab visit) Leipzig, Germany, 2022
- Organiser Synapses Lecture Series3 Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Attendee European Conference on Visual Perception Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Speaker Pre-master Introduction Day1 Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Finalist AI Song Contest Liege, Belgium, 2022
- Student ambassador 3rd NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting3 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2022
- Poster presenter 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2022
- Speaker Dondrite Career Event4 Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Poster presenter Donders Poster Session1 Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Poster presenter 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Virtual, 2021
- Speaker Welcoming Synapses: From Cajal to NeurotechEU3 Virtual, 2021
- Speaker Functional Analysis Meeting, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (lab visit) Virtual, 2021
- Poster presenter Donders Poster Session2 Virtual, 2020
Research grants and prizes »
- NeurotechEU Best Presentation Award 2021
- DCC Student Assistant Grant 2021
- Donders Best Poster Award 2020
- AI TOPtalent PhD Fellowship 2020
- DCC Student Assistant Fellowship 2020