Danyal
@danakarca.bsky.social
Neuroscience & AI @ Imperial & Cambridge |
www.danakarca.com
www.danakarca.com
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Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks
Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...
arxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
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How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🤖🧠🧪
🧵1/9
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🤖🧠🧪
🧵1/9
August 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🤖🧠🧪
🧵1/9
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🤖🧠🧪
🧵1/9
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We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇
Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective!
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇
Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective!
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective!
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.
Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out...
Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro.
Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro.
Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
July 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out...
Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro.
Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro.
Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST!
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
June 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST!
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
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Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
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Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪
Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇
neuralcomputation.uk
Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇
neuralcomputation.uk
June 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪
Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇
neuralcomputation.uk
Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇
neuralcomputation.uk
Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof).
Registration closes 1st July! Plz share:
neuralcomputation.uk
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We propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us:
- Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions.
- Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour.
- State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
- Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions.
- Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour.
- State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
June 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us:
- Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions.
- Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour.
- State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
- Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions.
- Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour.
- State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!
New #Preprint Alert!! 🤖 🧠 🧪
What if we could train neural cellular automata to develop continuous universal computation through gradient descent ?! We have started to chart a path toward this goal in our new preprint:
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13058
Blog: gabrielbena.github.io/blog/2025/be...
🧵⬇️
What if we could train neural cellular automata to develop continuous universal computation through gradient descent ?! We have started to chart a path toward this goal in our new preprint:
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13058
Blog: gabrielbena.github.io/blog/2025/be...
🧵⬇️
A Path to Universal Neural Cellular Automata | Gabriel Béna
Exploring how neural cellular automata can develop continuous universal computation through training by gradient descent
gabrielbena.github.io
June 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!
Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July!
We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance.
***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!***
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Any q's - get in touch!
We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance.
***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!***
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Any q's - get in touch!
May 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July!
We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance.
***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!***
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Any q's - get in touch!
We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance.
***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!***
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
Any q's - get in touch!
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Come along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Come along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).
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Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places
Main meeting: 10-11 July
Pls share!
Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places
Main meeting: 10-11 July
Pls share!
Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
Registration |
neuralcomputation.uk
April 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places
Main meeting: 10-11 July
Pls share!
Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places
Main meeting: 10-11 July
Pls share!
Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May).
We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥
Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html
Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk
Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥
Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html
Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk
Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
March 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May).
We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥
Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html
Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk
Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥
Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html
Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk
Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
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Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July)
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Deadline: 12 May
Please share
All info: neuralcomputation.uk
Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Deadline: 12 May
Please share
All info: neuralcomputation.uk
Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
Submission |
neuralcomputation.uk
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July)
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Deadline: 12 May
Please share
All info: neuralcomputation.uk
Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h...
Deadline: 12 May
Please share
All info: neuralcomputation.uk
Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute
Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
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I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.
Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference.
By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructure
Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political…
www.thetransmitter.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.
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For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social).
🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social).
🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
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New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/
January 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/
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We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications.
Save the dates:
9th July - ECR day
10th & 11th July - Main event
Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
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Rory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software.
To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
flywhl-ideas.notion.site
December 3, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Rory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software.
To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
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@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉
November 28, 2024 at 10:52 PM
@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉
We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI.
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42...
Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42...
Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks - Nature Machine Intelligence
A framework for training artificial neural networks in physical space allows neuroscientists to build networks that look and function like real brains.
nature.com
December 21, 2023 at 8:49 PM
We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI.
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42...
Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42...
Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
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If the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023
Excited to share my first 2nd author NeurIPS paper, w/ Colin Bredenberg, Cristina Savin, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, & Guillaume Lajoie! We formulate a mathematically grounded notion of locality for learning rules in neural nets. Useful for neuroscience & neuromorphics
openreview.net/forum?id=rGN...
openreview.net/forum?id=rGN...
December 13, 2023 at 7:09 PM
If the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023