Sushrut Thorat.

I am a cognitive scientist, ultimately interested in building resource-constrained artificial agents that can learn and function in the wild.

Current position:

• Postdoctoral researcher in Machine Learning.
  • At the Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University.
  • Advised by Tim Kietzmann.
  • Institutional email address: sthorat@uos.de
• Research interests:
  • Normative models of visual relational reasoning.
  • Iterative refinement of object identity inference in recurrent neural networks.
  • Lifelong learning on continuous data streams with recurrent neural networks.
  • Interactions between memory, perception, and decision-making systems.
  • Bio-inspired local learning rules as alternatives to backpropagation-based updates.

Previous education/experience:

• PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (thesis) from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.
• MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (thesis) from CIMeC, University of Trento.
• BTech in Engineering Physics (thesis) from IIT Bombay.
  

Further academically-relevant information can be found in my curriculum vitae (full/short). The projects page lists and briefly summarizes my projects.

In case you would like to discuss the possibility of a collaboration or just ideas/critiques related to my work, connect with me on Twitter @martisamuser or email sushrut.thorat94@gmail.com.

Beyond research, I enjoy playing League of Legends, Age of Empires 2, badminton, and board games (Catan <3). I am always up for water-sports: swimming, kayaking, snorkelling, stand-up paddling, and scuba diving. Also sign me up for any adrenaline-pumping, motivating, or tear-jerking anime (have you watched Hunter x Hunter yet? Your Lie in April?), or movies!

I occasionally blog about the green screens of my projects, half-baked but interesting ideas, and other random stuff which might come in handy. I occasionally write short stories and poems (I am a novice). They can be found at Meadows.