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Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Helmut Obermayer

Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Helmut Obermayer

Sektionssprecher "Computational Neuroscience"

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Fakult¨at IV),
Technische University Berlin
MAR5-6, TU Berlin
Marchstraße 23
10587 Berlin
Tel.: +49-30-314-73120
Fax: +49-30-314-73121
Email: oby@cs.tu-berlin.de
Homepage: http://www.ni.tu-berlin.de/

Curriculum Vitae

1987: Diplom in physics (“with honors”), University of Stuttgart, Germany
1989-92: Student research position at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, USA
1992: Dr. rer. nat. (“with honors”), Department of Physics, Technical University of
Munich, Munich, Germany
1992-93: Postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
1993-94: Postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA,
USA
1994-95: Hochschulassistent (C1), Technische Fakult¨at, University of Bielefeld, Germany
1995-2001: Associate Professor (C3), Department for Computer Science, TU Berlin,
Germany
1997-99: Vice-Chairman, Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany
1999-2001: Chairman, Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany
Seit 2001: Full Professor for Computer Science (C4), TU Berlin, Germany

 

Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunkte

  • Computational neuroscience (visual system, neural coding, adaptation, plasticity)
  • Machine learning and artificial neural networks
  • Analysis of neural data
  • Pattern recognition applications

Förderpreise und Auszeichnungen

1980-87: Fellow of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”
1990-92: Fellow of the “Boehringer-Ingelheim Fonds”
1999-2003: Director of the European Advanced Course of Computational Neuroscience
seit 2003: Springer Series in Advanced Information Processing, member of the advisory board
seit 2004: International Neural Network Society, member of the governing board
seit 2004: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin: ExCom member
2007-11: Organization for Computational Neurosciences, member of the Board of Directors & Vice-Chairman
2008-11: Neural Networks, member of the editorial board
seit 2009: DFG Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems” (GRK 1589/1): Coordinator

Ausgewählte Publikationen

  • S. Grünewälder, K. Obermayer: The Optimal Unbiased Estimator and its Relation to LSTD, TD and MC, Mach. Learn. 83, 289-330 (2011).
  • F. Franke, M. Natora, C. Boucsein, M. Munk, K. Obermayer: An Online Spike Detection and Spike Classification Algorithm Capable of Instantaneous Resolution of Overlapping Spikes, J. Comput. Neurosci., doi:10.1007/s10827-009-0163-5 (2010).
  • J. Young, W. Waleszczyk, C. Wang, M. Calford, B. Dreher, K. Obermayer: Cortical Reorganization Consistent with Spike Timing but not Correlation-dependent Plasticity, Nat. Neurosci. 10, 887-889 (2007).
  • J. Hochreiter, K. Obermayer: Support Vector Machines for Dyadic Data, Neural Comput. 18, 1472-1510 (2006).
  • J. Marino, J. Schummers, D. Lyon, L. Schwabe, O. Beck, P. Wiesing, K. Obermayer, M. Sur: Invariant Computations in Local Cortical Networks with Balanced Excitation and Inhibition. Nat. Neurosci. 8, 194-201 (2005).