Welcome to the Neural Networks Research Group web site.
The group is directed by Prof. Risto Miikkulainen and is located at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
New NSF, NIH, and ARP projects started
12/1/08
In the NSF-supported "CreativeIT" project, the goal is to leverage human intuition with neuroevolution discovery of complex behavior. In the ARP project, we are utilizing simulated environments like OpenNERO to learn complex high-level behaviors. Both of these projects build on our prior work on evolving neural networks. The NIH project, in turn, continues our cognitive science research stream: A model of bilingual lexicon is being built in order to study how it breaks down in aphasia, and how the performance can be best regained through rehabilitation.