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• 2025-07-01 AI Project Summary

  NeuroAI: What the Brain Can Teach Us About the Future of AI

  Based on a lightning talk at Future Fest 2025 — modern AI has deep roots in neuroscience, and its future might depend on returning to them.

• 2024-03-01 AI Project Summary

  Predicting Brain Microstructure from bSSFP MRI with Deep Learning

  Using a conditional GAN with multi-stage training to predict full 3D diffusion tensors from balanced steady-state free precession MRI — bridging the gap between scan speed and microstructural insight.

• 2024-03-01 AI Project Summary

  Understanding MRI Contrast: From Diffusion Tensors to Balanced Steady-State Free Precession

  An accessible introduction to two MRI techniques — diffusion-weighted imaging and bSSFP — and why one might encode information about the other.

• 2023-06-01 AI Project Summary

  Listening to the Brain from the Inside: What Happens When You Record Neural Signals During Brain Surgery

  What do brain signals actually sound like when you lower an electrode into a living human brain — and what can they teach us about treating Parkinson's disease?

• 2023-06-01 AI Project Summary

  Data-Driven Biomarkers for Motor Subthalamic Nucleus in Parkinson's Disease During DBS Electrode Implantation

  Using machine learning and SHAP to identify electrophysiological biomarkers for precise DBS electrode placement in Parkinson's disease surgery.

• 2023-03-01 AI Project Summary

  Building a Toolbox to Decode the Brain's Electrical Whispers

  How a custom Python application is helping neuroscientists study epilepsy and migraine through multi-electrode array recordings.

• 2021-06-01 AI Project Summary

  Why the Order of Your Graph Data on Disk Matters More Than You Think

  How rearranging records in a graph database can dramatically reduce disk I/O for traversal queries.

• 2021-06-01 AI Project Summary

  Building a Graph Database from Scratch in C: Architecture of a Research Storage Engine

  A deep dive into the layered architecture of a minimal graph database built for studying how record layout affects query performance.

• 2020-09-01 AI Project Summary

  Discovering Hidden Taxonomies: Automatic Concept Hierarchy Formation in Property Graphs

  How an unsupervised clustering pipeline can extract meaningful type hierarchies from graph databases — and why that matters for query optimization.

• 2018-09-01 AI Project Summary

  Decoding Language Comprehension from Brainwaves: A Deep Learning Approach to EEG Coherence Classification

  Can a neural network tell how well you understood a sentence — just by reading your brainwaves? Classifying language comprehension from EEG coherence spectra using deep learning.

• 2018-03-29 AI Project Summary

  Affective Computing for Subjective Video Quality Assessment: Building EmoPy

  A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and the Technical University of Berlin on using facial expression recognition for video quality assessment.

• 2017-12-01 AI Project Summary

  Building a Generic Blockchain in Rust: Beyond Cryptocurrency

  Using Rust's type system to build a blockchain where the transaction payload is a generic parameter — supporting cryptocurrency, voting, and more.