Rhodri Cusack
@rhodricusack
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Development of the infant mind and brain and how they are disrupted by injury. Uses deep learning to model and test with behaviour and MRI (he/him/his)
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined July 2009
Why are human infants helpless for so long? It has been attributed to maternal constraints causing an early birth while the brain is still immature.
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Excited to announce that this paper is now out in @ScienceAdvances
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Probing neural representations reveals universal aspects of vision in artificial and biological networks.
What do artificial and biological vision have in common? Shared architectures? Shared task objectives? In this preprint, we suggest a more general explanation: they share universal dimensions of natural image representation.
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Thanks to fellow defenders @ClionaODoherty @MarcRanzato and Christine Charvet! Defending the foundation model view of infant development https://t.co/YRR3tmmv1h
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@CSABrainHealth @ecnptweets @kirk_EARA @The_EARA @CNRS @EANeurology @impc @Cheshir77216793 @EU_EISMEA 🌍 What’s next for brain research in Europe? Jan Palmowski, Tomás Ryan @FENSorg, Kasia Jurczak @EUScienceInnov, & Isaac Middelmann @EITHealth share their vision.
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How do object representations emerge in the developing brain? Our GAC workshop at #CCN2025 brings together behavior, neuroimaging & modeling to test competing hypotheses. Join the conversation: https://t.co/GcCfXdghET
#VisionScience #DevNeuro #NeuralNets
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What shapes the ventral visual system in infancy - innate biases or experience? Marieke Mur, Western University Talia Konkle, Harvard Bria Long, UCSD Daniel Yamins, Stanford Moritz Köster, University...
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Not just one, but two fantastic chances to discuss how infant development can inform machine learning and vice-versa at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam!!! Satellite workshop https://t.co/40nkdcG7e6 and Generative Adversarial Collaboration https://t.co/uGg5LOSYtE. Register now!
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Background The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made signif...
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https://t.co/FupONK8Prq It’s not unusual for new governments to initially impose restrictions, but this is next level. More efficiency is one thing, but this seems to target scientists specifically. I’m concerned for early career researchers, grant applicants & intramural staff.
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Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
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Fintan O'Toole always has such fascinating insights into things I find hard to understand. We have entered a no man’s land, an age of dizzying transitions https://t.co/RoLFdL8pAd
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The far right has been much better than the left at giving voters the illusion that it has an accurate map across these liminal spaces
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The artist-in-residence at @TCINeuroscience, @cianmcartist, is set to open a research-inspired solo show at Dublin’s @MolesworthGall Read more about this fascinating work here: https://t.co/2yYUwLnPSE
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Massive congratulations to my good friend and former Google colleague @geoffreyhinton on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics (with John Hopfield)! Incredibly well deserved, Geoff laid the foundations for the deep learning revolution that underpins the modern AI field.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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The @TCINeuroscience team are setup and ready to share their exciting research. @ClionaODoherty @anna_truzzi @marie_santillo
@eimeario @cianmcartist @cusacklab #EuropeanResearchersNight #ResearchMatters
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Announcing the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin. Half of speakers will be selected from abstracts submitted by trainees. Registration opens soon. Supported by @NIDAnews & @TCINeuroscience
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Appointment will be on the Research Ireland Experienced Post Doctoral Research (2B) or Research Fellow (Level 3) scales, full time, ​€51,677-€68,318 per annum. Benefits include a pension contribution and PRSI social insurance.
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The post will be based in Trinity College Dublin in the heart of Dublin, Ireland, a culturally rich and thriving city. Ireland hosts the European Headquarters of many major companies (Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, X, Intel, HP, Pfizer, GSK).
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FreezeMotion is a collaboration between Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Dublin), Chen Qin (Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Imperial-X, Imperial College London), Mark Chiew (Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto) and Alex Bronstein (Computer Science, Technion).
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Candidates must have expertise in DNNs and/or fMRI and strong programming in python or another language.
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DNNs have considerable potential to correct head motion in fMRI, as they can learn complex mappings, and exploit knowledge of brain structure. The FreezeMotion project will develop DNNs to motion correct fMRI data.
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Unfortunately, infants move in the scanner and half the images are discarded, precluding clinical application. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and are finding growing application in biomedical imaging.
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Join us! FreezeMotion PhD and Postdoc Vacancies in Deep Neural Networks for Medical Imaging. Brain development in infants and its disruption by preterm birth or perinatal injury, can be measured with functional MRI (fMRI).
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