NNRG People - Joseph Sirosh

Joseph Sirosh

Ph.D. Alumni

Joseph is Vice President for Transaction Risk Management at Amazon, Inc., in Seattle.

Email:

joseph sirosh [at] gmail com

Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex	1987 - 2009
Self-Organization in the Primary Visual Cortex: The RF-LISSOM Model	1995 - 1997
Vision-Driven Development of Auditory Spatial Maps	1995 - 1997
LISSOM: Laterally Interconnected Self-Organizing Maps	1987 - 1997

Publications

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A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of the Primary Visual Cortex	Risto Miikkulainen, James Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh	In S. Usui, T. Omori, editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Inform...	1998

Self-Organization, Plasticity, and Low-Level Visual Phenomena in a Laterally Connected Map Model of the Primary Visual Cortex	Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh	In R. L. Goldstone and P. G. Schyns and D. L. Medin, editors, Perceptual Learning, Psychology...	1997

Laterally Interconnected Self-Organizing Maps In Hand-Written Digit Recognition	Yoonsuck Choe, Joseph Sirosh, and Risto Miikkulainen	In David S. Touretzky and Michael C. Mozer and Michael E. Hasselmo, editors, Advances in Neural ...	1996

Lateral Interactions In The Cortex: Structure And Function	Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (editors)	Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96/. Austin, TX: The U...	1996

Introduction: The Emerging Understanding of Lateral Interactions in the Cortex	Risto Miikkulainen and Joseph Sirosh	In Sirosh, J., Miikkulainen, R., and Choe, Y., editors, Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Struc...	1996

Self-Organization and Functional Role of Lateral Connections and Multisize Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	Neural Processing Letters, 3:39-48, 1996.	1996

Topographic Receptive Fields and Patterned Lateral Interaction in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	Neural Computation, 9:577-594, 1996.	1996

Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex	Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen and James A. Bednar	In Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen and Yoonsuck Choe, editors, {P}roceedings of the {I}nter...	1996

A Neural Network Model of Topographic Reorganization Following Cortical Lesions	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In M. Witten, editors, Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology: Building a Man in...	1996

A Model Of Visually Guided Plasticity Of The Auditory Spatial Map In The Barn Owl	Andrea Haessly, Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 154-158, 1995....	1995

A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex	Joseph Sirosh	PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1995. Te...	1995

Modeling Cortical Plasticity Based On Adapting Lateral Interaction	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In James M. Bower, editors, The Neurobiology of Computation: {T}he Proceedings of the Third Annu...	1995

Ocular Dominance and Patterned Lateral Connections in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In Gerald Tesauro and David S. Touretzky and Todd K. Leen, editors, Advances in Neural Informatio...	1995

Cooperative Self-Organization Of Afferent And Lateral Connections In Cortical Maps	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	Biological Cybernetics:66-78, 1994.	1994

Self-Organizing Feature Maps With Lateral Connections: Modeling Ocular Dominance	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In M. C. Mozer and P. Smolensky and D. S. Touretzky and J. L. Elman and A. S. Weigend, editors, ...	1994

How Lateral Interaction Develops In A Self-Organizing Feature Map	Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (San Francisco, CA), 1...	1993

Software/Data

LISSOM	The LISSOM package contains the C++, Python, and Scheme source code and examples for training and testing firing-rate...	2004

Areas of Interest

Visual Cortex Cognitive Science Brain and Cognitive Disorders Computational Neuroscience Unsupervised Learning, Clustering, and Self-Organization Applications