Evan Coats
Home Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Major
Computer Science and Philosophy
Expected Undergraduate Graduation Date
December 2025
Faculty Advisor
Lav Varshney
Faculty Advisor
Frithjof Gressman
Project Title
Computational neuroscience
Research Abstract
Research areas of interest: Machine learning, computational neuroscience.
Recent Mind in Vitro Projects include (1) Utilizing information theoretic and statistical measures to analyze RNN working memory capacity and (2) Researching optimal surrogate gradient matching for SNN simulators of in-vitro neurons