Hi! My name is Maria. I am currently doing
a self-study MSc thesis on calcium imaging
and Neuropixel probe data analysis, focusing
on mouse vision. I am developing a Python library,
HuggingMouse,
for studying the directions in Vision Transformer image embedding spaces that predict neural firing in response
to images in the mouse brain. I started the project during the BackdropBuild coding event.
In my day job,
I'm a machine learning engineer working on applying
Natural Language Processing
algorithms to legal and police data.
If you like games, you might enjoy a game called
Fame I made
during the HuggingFace OpenSource AI GameJam 2023.
The images above show the sensitivity pattern
to stimuli in the visual space of groups
of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1)
of the mouse. Images that the mice were
viewing were regressed against these
neural activity components to visualize
the ensemble receptive fields of cortical
cells.