Umut Güçlü
Principal Investigator
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUmut Güçlü is a Principal Investigator and ELLIS Scholar who leads the Neural Coding Lab and the Donders AI for Neurotech Lab, bridging neuroscience and AI to reverse-engineer in vivo neural computation for “brain reading” and “brain writing.” With 11 years of experience and over 75 publications including in eLife and NeurIPS, he ranks among the top 10 most-cited researchers worldwide in Neural Decoding, Neural Encoding, and NeuroAI. He has secured ≈€2.5M in funding, collaborates with industry partners on neuroprosthetics, and contributed foundational work showing homomorphic relations between brain representations and deep network layers. An educator and program coordinator, he has taught and supervised across AI and cognitive neuroscience, built on-prem GPU clusters, and edited special issues on explainability and inpainting. Beyond academia, his work earned the 2024 Computable Award for digital innovation in visual prostheses, and he’s known for balancing deep technical rigor with practical neurotechnology translation—often seen at the lab with his two pups, Kara and Kuzu.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Neural Coding with Deep Learning, Doctor of Philosophy, Neural Coding with Deep Learning at Radboud UniversityBachelor of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence at Multimedia University
Github Skills (20)
density-estimation9
probabilistic8
matconvnet7
machine-learning6
python6
probabilistic-programming6
matlab6
inference5
deep-learning3
jekyll-theme3
jekyll3
pytorch3
encoder2
encoding2
generative-adversarial-network1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
umuguc/umuguc.github.io
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:102 pushes in 2 months
minimawritersone-size-fits-alljekylljekyll-theme
umuguc/test
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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