Work

Research

• Dado, T., de Lange, F., Berlot, E. (2025). From seeing to seeking: belief-based exploration in gamified environments. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
• 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.
• Dado, T., Le, L., van Gerven, M., Güçlütürk, Y., & Güçlü, U. (2024). PAM: Predictive attention mechanism for neural decoding of visual perception. bioRxiv, 2025-02.
• 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

• Artificial intelligence for neurotechnology · Guest lecturer 2021–2025
• ABC Summer School: Neuro-AI · Tutorial creator & teaching assistant 2024
• Deep learning · Teaching assistant 2021–2024
• Computer graphics and computer vision · Teaching assistant 2020–2024
• Proefstuderen · Guest lecturer 2022
• Information and orientation team · Student advisor 2022
• Human-computer interaction · Teaching assistant 2021
• Brain reading and writing · Teaching assistant 2020

Academic activities

• Donders Neuro-AI Focus Group · Co-organizer Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2025–present
• NEAT · Talk & poster Osnabrück, Germany, 2026
• Donders Poster Session · Poster Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2026

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• 20th NVP Winter Conference · Talk & poster Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2025
• Qua Art – Qua Science (De Museumfabriek) · Talk Enschede, Netherlands, 2025
• Donders-NIN Day · Talk Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025
• Donders Neuro-AI Focus Group · Talk Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2025
• 8th Conference on CCN · Co-organizer & poster Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025
• NeuroTechHub: Mind-Reading Technology · Talk Virtual, 2025
• Visual Inference Lab, Columbia University (Kriegeskorte Lab) · Talk New York, US, 2025
• 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · Talk Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024

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• 19th NVP Winter Conference · Poster Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023
• Dept. Brain & Cognition, Psychology, University of Amsterdam · Talk Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023
• Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence Day · Poster Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023
• 6th Conference on CCN · Poster Oxford, United Kingdom, 2023
• Donders Poster Session · Poster Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023
• Women of NeurotechEU · Student ambassador Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023
• 9th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference · Poster Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2023

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• Max Planck RG Vision and Comp. Cognition (Hebart Lab) · Talk Leipzig, Germany, 2022
• Synapses Lecture Series (NeurotechEU) · Organizer Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022
• 3rd NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting · Student ambassador Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2022
• 18th NVP Winter Conference · Poster Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 2022
• Donders Poster Session · Poster Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2022

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• 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering · Poster Virtual, 2021
• Welcoming Synapses: From Cajal to NeurotechEU · Talk Virtual, 2021
• Donders Poster Session · Poster Virtual, 2020

Awards & funding

• Donders Research Stimulation Funds2025, 2026
• 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