Lars Buesing's Homepage


Office Address

Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Graz University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 16b/1
A-8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: +43-3168735842
Email: lars@igi.tugraz.at
I'm a PhD student in the lab for theoretical computer science of Prof. Maass at the Graz University of Technology, Austria.
My research mainly focuses on recurrent neural networks and learning with spiking neurons. But I'm also interested in machine learning, dynamical systems, statistics...

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. L. Buesing, and W. Maass.
    A spiking neuron as Information Bottleneck.
    Neural Computation, in press 2010
    preprint

  2. Claudia Clopath, Lars Buesing, Eleni Vasilaki, Wulfram Gerstner
    Connectivity reflects coding: a model of voltage-based STDP with homeostasis
    Nature Neuroscience 2010, doi:10.1038/nn.2479
    link

  3. B. Schrauwen, L. Buesing, and R. Legenstein.
    On computational power and the order-chaos phase transition in reservoir computing.
    In Proc. of NIPS 2008, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 21. MIT Press, 2009.
    *Student Paper Award, Honorable Mentions*
    paper

  4. L. Buesing, B. Schrauwen, and R. Legenstein.
    Connectivity, dynamics, and memory in reservoir computing with binary and analog neurons.
    Neural Computation, in press 2009
    preprint

  5. C. Clopath, L. Ziegler, E. Vasilaki, L. Buesing, and W. Gerstner.
    Tag-trigger-consolidation: A model of early and late long-term-potentiation and depression.
    PLOS Computational Biology, 4(12):e1000248, 2008.
    paper

  6. L. Buesing and W. Maass.
    Simplified rules and theoretical analysis for information bottleneck optimization and PCA with spiking neurons.
    In Proc. of NIPS 2007, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 20. MIT Press, 2008.
    paper

  7. E. Muller, L. Buesing, J. Schemmel, and K. Meier.
    Spike-frequency adapting neural ensembles: Beyond mean adaptation and renewal theories.
    Neural Computation, 19(11), 2007.
    preprint