Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit is a research centre at UCL supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Our work encompasses theoretical and computational neuroscience, computational statistics, machine learning and AI, threads drawn together by our focus on the mathematical foundations of adaptive intelligent behaviour.
We maintain a singular and cohesive research culture, emphasising interaction and collaboration within the unit and beyond. We work closely with colleagues at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC) and the wider UCL Neuroscience Domain, the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), as well as companies and research institutions around the world. In 2020 we joined UCL's ELLIS Unit, part of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.
About two-thirds of our PhD and postdoctoral alumni have established successful academic careers, while others continue research in companies such as DeepMind, itself founded by two of our alumni.
Latest news
Gatsby Unit alumnus awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 9 October 2024
Gatsby Unit founder awarded Nobel Prize in Physics - 8 October 2024
Papers by researchers at the Gatsby Unit accepted to NeurIPS 2024 - 3 October 2024
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Upcoming event
Philipp Hennig - external semianr 'Probabilistic Linear Algebra: From Cholesky to Data Loaders' - 5 February
Nicole Mücke - external seminar 'Recent Trends in Learning Operators' - 12 February
Marta Catalano - external seminar 'Distances on random measures for Bayesian nonparametrics' - 19 February
Benjamin Cowley - external seminar 'A one-to-one mapping between model units and visual neurons reveals population code for social behavior' - 26 February