
Calvin Kao
@kao_calvin

Is motor preparation an optimal control strategy? If youāre interested in finding out, come check out our work with Calvin Kao and Guillaume Hennequin at #BernsteinConference tomorrow (poster 245)!


Our Nature Neuroscience paper is out, first-authored by my student Omid Sani. It develops PSID, a novel dynamic method to dissociate & model behaviorally relevant neural dynamics. Thanks to Salar Abbaspour, Y Wong & collaborator Pesaran Lab. Summary & code below: 1/n nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦

We expanded our manifold GPLVM for latent variable modeling in neuroscience with linear/non-linear tuning, Gaussian/discrete noise, and smooth/iid priors ā on both Euclidean and non-Euclidean manifolds! Come check it out at #cosyne21 1-086 (w/ Calvin Kao & Guillaume Hennequin )


Come for Bayesian GPFA which automatically learns the latent dimensionality of neural data; stay for analyses of multi-region & preparatory activity in 30 minute long recordings from a self-paced reaching task! (with Calvin Kao,Jasmine Stone,Guillaume Hennequin) biorxiv.org/content/10.110ā¦


Natural continual learning: success is a journey, not (just) a destination! (new work by Calvin Kao and I with Alberto Bernacchia and Guillaume Hennequin; arxiv.org/abs/2106.08085)


I've surfaced these three Neuromotor Interfaces *internship* job postings. Come work with us at FRL CTRL! (Currently has, or obtaining a Ph.D.) Experimental Systems facebook.com/careers/v2/job⦠Computational Modeling facebook.com/careers/v2/job⦠Signal Processing facebook.com/careers/v2/jobā¦




āYou never forget how to ride a bikeā ā but how is that even possible when neural circuits in your brain are in constant flux? Check out our new work on neural stability in the motor system w/ NaamaKadmonHarpaz, Ashesh Dhawale, Steffen Wolff & @BOlveczky! tinyurl.com/zhuz6yhk




Cambridge-Columbia collaborative postdoc position available between the labs of Guillaume Hennequin, MƔtƩ Lengyel & Daniel Wolpert to study neural network mechanisms underlying the context-dependent (continual) learning of motor repertoires. tinyurl.com/ycxhw6wa. Come work with us!

Ella Batty Decided to verify that this works and wrote a quick jupyter notebook; here it is in case anyone is interested (including a comparison with a simple linear model predicting cos/sin theta): colab.research.google.com/drive/1xlsv7gbā¦)

Long-term stable motor behaviors are generated by single neuron activity patterns in motor cortex and striatum that are themselves highly stable New from Kristopher Torp Jensen NaamaKadmonHarpaz Ashesh Dhawale Steffen Wolff @BOlveczky Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology HarvardBrainScience nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦


Very excited to share our recent work w/ Calvin Kao & Guillaume Hennequin! We investigated when & why motor preparation arises in RNN models of motor control. Is preparation optimal for RNNs performing delayed reaching tasks? Spoiler: it is! (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110ā¦

