Pedro Abranches de Carvalho

Pedro Abranches de Carvalho

PhD student at LIONS and .Neurorestore

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Biography

I finished my second year of PhD at EPFL in the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems led by Prof. Volkan Cevher and .Neurorestore center led by Prof. Grégoire Courtine and Prof. Jocelyne Bloch. My main responsabilities lie in automating the search, regarding the stimulation protocols used in the project of .Neurorestore where we deal with spinal cord injury patients, by employing intelligent decision making systems.

Until now, my academic journey was definitly not a straight path. Currently, I am focusing on Bayesian optimization (BO) and its applications. Nevertheless, I am also interested in understanding theoretical properties of the models we currently use.

My background involves neuroscience, engineering and computer science. I love to understand how things work and see how deep the rabbit hole is!

Correspondence: Second Name at protonmail

Interests

  • Automatic Machine Learning
  • Neuroscience & neurotechnologies
  • Graphs, Physics and Theory of ML

Education

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Present

    EPFL, Switzerland

  • MS in Computer Science, 2019

    Universidade do Porto, Portugal

  • BSc in Biochemistry, 2017

    Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Projects

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Causal Brain

Trying to infer a weak causality between activations in the brain using fMRI data (project started in class in need of a final finishing blow)

Building Pandora

There is much I do not know starting my PhD journey. This is a place where I hope to explain (to myself) some foundational concepts.

Publications

GG-GAN: A Geometric Graph Generative Adversarial Network

We study the fundamental problem of graph generation. Specifically, we treat graph generation from a geometric perspective by …

Localized Redox Relays as a Privileged Mode of Cytoplasmic Hydrogen Peroxide Signaling

Published in Redox Biology