On December 21, Madis Vasser defended his PhD thesis „Testing a Computational Theory of Brain Functioning with Virtual Reality“. In his thesis, he investigated the concept of active inference (AI) using virtual reality (VR) devices. During the work they developed VR software, conducted experiments on human study participants and compiled a set of guidelines for […]

On October 13, Ardi Tampuu defended his PhD thesis „Neural networks for analyzing biological data“. In his thesis, it was demonstrated the benefits of ANNs in analyzing two biological datasets. First, they investigated if based only on the information contained within a DNA snippet it is possible to predict if the snippet originates from a […]