Sohail Siadatnejad

Selected talks and presentations

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Some are my work, and some are others’ papers. (Poster presentations are not included).

2025: (industry) A framework for hardware verification for FPGA & ASICS: (presented internally to X-Silicon). Lessons from Software Engineering industry’s best practices and DevOps for CPU & GPU hardware design pipelines.

2023: (industry) Verification using Unit Testing: the Why.

2019: Predictive Processing in the Brain: Lessons from Neuroscience (Manchester)

2013: Quantifying Information in the Brain (PhD viva)

2011: Phase-of-Firing code using LFP modelling and Information Theory (PhD seminar)

2009: Quantifying Neural Information in Elecrophysiology recordings (interim viva)

2006: (mini presentaion) Optimal tuning in population coding using Fisher Information

2006: Perceptual Decision Making : A Review (SCS, IPM)

2005: Statistical Grammar Learning (on Jenny R. Saffran’s [Predictive] theory in Statistical language learning)

2005: Encoding of Tactile Sensory in Early Somatosensoty Cortex (S1; a paper by A Romo)

2005: Tactile Processing in Primary Afferents and Early Somatosensoty Cortex (Timescales in somatosensory receptors)

2006: Accurate Adaptive-Threshold Neural Cell Modeling (“Adaptive SRM” model)

2006: Operant conditioning: roles of Dopamine and Serotonin (Daw, Kakade, Dayan; Opponent interactions between serotonin and dopamine.)

2005: Oscillations in Parkinson Disease: phase-planes analysis of Dynamical Systems (Rubin & Terman; High frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus eliminates pathological thalamic rhythmicity in a computational model. .)

2005: Prediction Error, Reiforcement Learning and the role of Dopamine.

2005: Unifying framework for neuronal assembly dynamics: Modelling Neural Assemblies using Mean-field and Renewal Processes (Eggert, van Hemmen et al)

2003-2005: (Lecturer of various CS university courses, Mathematical Sciences Department, SUT)

2003: Protein Folding as Global Optimisation (Masters viva)

2003: Protein Folding (Biomath seminars)

2002: (Minor course seminar) Non-Smooth Optimisation (for: Non-linear Optimisation course)

2002: Low-latency Realtime Audio Reverberator on FPGA & SPDIF ( FPGA Design Contest, talk and demo, winner entry)

2002: (industry) (Teaching industry courses for some insurance companies).

2000: Realtime Audio Processing and Physical modelling (BSc viva and live demo)

1996: Raytracing for photorealism: a rendering engine (Annual Student Conference, AKU), (at age 18)

1995: Raytracing: an implementation (seminar, CSEE departiment, IUT), (at age 18)

1995: (Interview, published in magazine): Stereoscopic vision using random-dot stereograms, and software implementation (age 17)

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