Thirza Dado
Postdoctoral researcher at the Predictive Brain Lab, studying curiosity in humans & AI
Work
Curiosity · Generative Modeling · Neural Coding · Predictive Coding
Research »
- Dado, T., Le, L., van Gerven, M., Güçlütürk, Y., & Güçlü, U. (2025). PAM: Predictive attention mechanism for neural decoding of visual perception. bioRxiv, 2025-02.
- Le, L., Kimman, N., Dado, T., Seeliger, K., Papale, P., Lozano, A., Roelfsema, P., van Gerven, M., Güçlütürk, Y. and Güçlü, U. (2025). Neural encoding with affine feature response transforms. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.03741.
- Le, L., Dado, T., Seeliger, K., Papale, P., Lozano, A., Roelfsema, P., Güçlütürk, Y., van Gerven, M. and Güçlü, U. (2025). Inverse receptive field attention for naturalistic image reconstruction from the brain. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.03051.
- 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., & 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 »
- Guest lecturer Artificial intelligence for neurotechnology 2021 to 2025
- Tutorial creator ABC Summer School: Neuro-AI 2024
- Teaching assistant ABC Summer School: Neuro-AI 2024
- Teaching assistant Deep learning 2021 to 2024
- Teaching assistant Computer graphics and computer vision 2020 to 2024
- Guest lecturer Proefstuderen 2022
- Member Information and orientation team 2022
- Teaching assistant Human-computer interaction 2021
- Teaching assistant Brain reading and writing 2020
Academic activities »
- Organizing member Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025
- Speaker NeuroTechHub: Mind-Reading Technology Virtual, 2025
- Speaker Visual Inference Lab | Kriegeskorte, Columbia University New York, US, 2025
- Attendee Foraging Conference Lyon, France, 2024
- Speaker 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024
- Poster presenter 19th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023
- Speaker Dept. Brain & Cognition, Psychology, University of Amsterdam 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 Session Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023
- Student ambassador Women of NeurotechEU Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023
- Poster presenter 9th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023
- Speaker Max Planck RG Vision and Comp. Cognition | Hebart Lab Leipzig, Germany, 2022
- Organizer Synapses Lecture Series Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Attendee European Conference on Visual Perception Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Speaker Pre-master Introduction Day Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Student ambassador 3rd NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2022
- Poster presenter 18th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2022
- Speaker Dondrite Career Event Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Poster presenter Donders Poster Session Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
- Poster presenter 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Virtual, 2021
- Speaker Welcoming Synapses: From Cajal to NeurotechEU Virtual, 2021
- Speaker Functional Analysis Meeting, DCCN Virtual, 2021
- Poster presenter Donders Poster Session 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