Short Curriculum Vitae

• 09/2008 - present: Ph.D. Student at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Focus: Information processing in biological recurrent neural networks for visual perception and pattern recognition.
• 10/2006 - 09/2009: Master of Philosophy, Wessex Institute of Technology, University of Wales, UK. Thesis: Heterogeneous model of neural networks using the learning algorithms based on dynamic modication of network topology.
• 09/2006 - 06/2007: Master of Science, Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine. Thesis: Time series intelligent processing using hybrid neural networks
• 09/2002 - 06/2006: Bachelor of Science, Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine

If you are interested, here is my full CV.

Research interests

• Biologically inspired neural networks
• Computational neuroscience and cogntion, especially the visual system and interplay between bottom-up and top-down visual processes
• Information theory
• Statistical pattern recognition
• Dimensionality reduction
• Data mining
• Machine learning

Publications

• L. Avdiyenko, Neural model of sequential visual selection for a classification task, in preparation.
• L. Avdiyenko, N. Bertschinger and J. Jost. Adaptive sequential feature selection for pattern classification, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, 2012, pp.474-482.
• L. Avdiyenko and Ye. Bodyanskiy, Modular optimization-memory based artificial neural network. Information processing systems, Kharkiv Air-Force University, Ukraine, 2008, pp.19-21.
• L. Avdiyenko, Time Series Intelligent Processing Using Heterogeneous Neural Networks. Lviv Polytechnic National University Bulletin-2007-604, 2007, pp.10-19.
• L. Avdiyenko and A. Slipchenko, Controlling a Radial Basis Function Network structure. In the Proceedings of the International Theoretical and Practical Conference "Intelligent Decision-Making Systems and Information Technologies", Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 2006, p.60 (in russian).