Professional Experience

2009- Research Scientist in Vasile Buzuloiu's lab at the Bucharest Politechnica University

topic: image classification, video indexing, eye movements

 

2006-2009 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Prof. Gegenfurtner's lab at the University of Giessen

topic: image classification, eye movements

2003-05 Senior Research Fellow in
Michael Wenger's lab at Penn-State

topics: perceptual learning, image classification

2002-03 Postdoctoral Researcher in
Miguel Eckstein's lab at UCSB

topics: perceptual learning, image classification

2000-02 Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology in Christof Koch's lab at Caltech

topics: neural coding, scene and object recognition

Education

1996-99 PhD thesis at the Inst. of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zuerich

advisors: R. Douglas, K. Martin

thesis: construction of neurons in analog VLSI

1997 Neuromorphic Workshop 97

1997 1. European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems 97

1991-96 Zoology studies at the University of Zurich

Diploma thesis (M.Sc.) in sleep research

advisors: A. Borbély, R. Wehner

thesis: statistical analysis of activity data of ibex ibex