Ľubica Beňušková

prof. RNDr. Ľubica Beňušková, PhD.
E-mail: lubica@ii.fmph.uniba.sk
Office: I-35
Tel: +421-2-60295 361

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RESEARCH

Ongoing Research Project

Computational models of synaptic plasticity with Prof. Peter Jedlicka from Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-Universityy, Giessen, Germany, Prof. Cliff Abraham from the Department of Psychology at U. Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Matus Tomko, PhD from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

Past Research Projects

(2017-2019) PI of the VEGA grant 1/0039/17 Complex networks and real problem solving with AIs A/Prof. Maria Markosova , Dr. Peter Nather from Comenius University and A/Prof. Boris Rudolf from Slovak Univ. of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
(2014-2015) Does language syntax mirror the structure of sensorimotor cognition? AI of the research project 13-UOO-048 funded by the Marsden fund with Prof. Alistair Knott (PI), and A/Prof. Martin Takac. Link to the article in Otago Magazine, issue 37, Feb 2014, p.32.
(2011-2015) Functional networks of the brain with Prof. Liz Franz from the Department of Psychology at U. Otago. Our former PhD student Dr. Paul D. McCarthy is currently with the FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, U.K. Link to his talk .
(2011-2015) Gene regulatory networks in LTP with Dr. Joanna Williams and Dr. Margaret Ryan from the Department of Anatomy at U. Otago. Our former PhD student: Dr. Gonzalo Sanchez Nido is currently a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway.
(2009-2011) Neural network model of sensorimotor grounding of language with Prof. Alistair Knott and Dr. Martin Takac (funded by the BuildIT Postdoctoral Fellowship). Martin is currently also with the Soul Machines, Auckland, New Zealand.
(2005-2007) VEGA MS SR and SAV 1/2045/05 Modelling of complex systems by means of neural networks with the emphasis on linguistics with Dr. Igor Farkas, Dr. Maria Markosova, Dr. Peter Tino, Michal Cernansky and Matej Makula.
(2003-2007) Computational neurogenetic modelling at KEDRI AUT, Auckland, New Zealand with Prof. Nik Kasabov
(1996-1999) PI of the U.S.-Slovak Joint Project No.015-95 Theory of Cortical Plasticity with Prof. Ford F. Ebner on application of the BCM theory to experience-dependent plasticity in somatosensory cortex.

Past PhD Students

Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Matus Tomko: Computational model of synaptic plasticity in CA1 region of hippocampus (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021) link
Martin Takac: Construction of meanings in living and artificial agents (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2009) link

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Azam Shirrafiardekani (2017) Interaction of STDP and metaplasticity in modelling heterosynaptic plasticity (co-supervision Prof. Joerg Frauendiener) link
Gonzalo Sanchez Nido (2015) Dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks involved in long-term potentiation (co-supervision Dr. Joanna Williams) link
Mira Guise (2015) An examination of polychronous neural groups as a potential substrate for representation (co-supervision A/Prof. Alistair Knott) link
Paul McCarthy (2014) Functional network analysis of aging and Alzheimer's Disease (co-supervision Prof. Liz Franz) link

Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Simei Gomes Wysoski: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Adaptive Audiovisual Pattern Recognition (2008, co-supervision with Prof. Nik Kasabov) link
Vishal Jain: Integrative approach to modelling and knowledge discovery of molecular interactions in bioinformatics (2008, co-supervision with Prof. Nik Kasabov) link

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Michal Cernansky: Comparison of Recurrent Neural Networks with Markov Models on Complex Symbolic Sequences (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2007).
Matej Makula: Power and Limitations of Recurrent Neural Networks in Processing Sequences of Symbols (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2009).