Haider Al-Tahan

PhD Journey

Starting my PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology!

Defended Masters Thesis

Masters thesis in Neuroscience at Western University!

Talk at VSS 2023

Presenting work on invariant object recognition in deep neural networks at VSS 2023. Talk Presentation 34.13: Sunday, May 21, 2:30 – 4:15 pm, Talk Room 1

Defended Masters Thesis

Masters thesis in Computer Science at Western University!

Paper Accepted at PLOS Computational Biology

Paper investigating feedback representations in ventral visual pathway with a generative adversarial autoencoder was accepted at PLOS Computational Biology

Paper Accepted at AISTATS 2021

Paper investigates contrastive learning of auditory representations accepted at The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

Awarded GSIS at Western

Awarded Graduate Student Innovation Scholars

New arXiv Paper

We investigate contrastive learning of auditory representations. CLAR: Contrastive Learning of Auditory Representations. Code coming soon :)

Presenting Poster @ Brain, Mind, and Machines Summer School

Presenting recent work on Ventral Visual Pathway at Brain, Mind, and Machines Summer School.

Accepted to the Brain, Mind, and Machines Summer School

BMM Summer School enrolls 30 graduate students and postdocs from around the world, and provides a introduction to the problem of intelligence

Awarded OGS/QEII at Western

Awarded OGS/QEII to support my work on building state-of-the-art model that synthesize audio from silent video frames

Guest Speaker at Brain Hack Western

Presented an introduction to deep learning practical tutorial. Material and slides are on this repo.

Joined Western University

Working with Dr. Yalda Mohsenzadeh for M.Sc. degree.

Awarded NSERC USRA

Working with Professor Richard P. Wildes on building the world’s largest dynamic scene’s database. More...

Attended Society for Neuroscience Conference

Poster Presentation, aiming to understand the motor control principles behind the coordination of complex multi-movement systems in humans.

I am in a video!

Started CS Capstone Project

Conducting my Computer Science capstone project with Professor Tzerpos involving speech and audio recognition using deep learning algorithms.

Conference presentations

Poster Presentation at 48th Annual Ontario Psychology Undergraduate Thesis Conference.'

Joined Visuomotor Neuroscience Lab

Supervised by Dr. Douglas Crawford. Conducted honors thesis with the goal of investigating the relative contribution of the head to gaze movement, in visually guided reach tasks.

Joined Developmental Processes Lab

Supervised by Dr. Janice Johnson. Conducted an analysis to investigate the correlation between resting-state brain connectivity and cognitive performance across various tasks using electroencephalography data (EEG).

Joined Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Supervised by Dr. Deryk Beal to develop technological framework to help maintain and provide better therapeutic experience for children and adults with communication disorders.