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Jeff Orchard
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Research
Latest papers
Compositional neurosymbolic representations enable efficient active exploration.
Nature communications · 2026
Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing With Spiking Phasors.
Neural computation · 2024 · first author
Exploiting semantic information in a spiking neural SLAM system.
Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023
Latest funding
- $145,000
Predictive-Coding Neural Networks: How They Learn and Behave
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $118,004
State-of-the-art multi-electrode array recording system for a core facility serving twelve plus faculty members from eight departments at the University of Waterloo
NSERC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $75,000
Neural Computing with Oscillations
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
14 publications.
Compositional neurosymbolic representations enable efficient active exploration.
Furlong PM, Dumont NS, Antonova R, Orchard J, Eliasmith C
Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing With Spiking Phasors.
Orchard J, Furlong PM, Simone K
Exploiting semantic information in a spiking neural SLAM system.
Dumont NS, Furlong PM, Orchard J, Eliasmith C
A Predictive-Coding Network That Is Both Discriminative and Generative.
Sun W, Orchard J
Biological batch normalisation: How intrinsic plasticity improves learning in deep neural networks.
Shaw NP, Jackson T, Orchard J
PixelBNN: Augmenting the PixelCNN with Batch Normalization and the Presentation of a Fast Architecture for Retinal Vessel Segmentation.
Leopold HA, Orchard J, Zelek JS, Lakshminarayanan V
Oscillator-interference models of path integration do not require theta oscillations.
Orchard J
Does the entorhinal cortex use the Fourier transform?
Orchard J, Yang H, Ji X
Population coding in sparsely connected networks of noisy neurons.
Tripp BP, Orchard J
Registering a multisensor ensemble of images.
Orchard J, Mann R
Predictive-Coding Neural Networks: How They Learn and Behave
Principal investigators: Orchard, Jeff
Keywords: neural networks; predictive coding; backpropagation; neuroscience; artificial intelligence; adversarial inputs
State-of-the-art multi-electrode array recording system for a core facility serving twelve plus faculty members from eight departments at the University of Waterloo
Principal investigators: Spafford, JDavid
Neural Computing with Oscillations
Principal investigators: Orchard, Jeff
Scientific computing in medical image reconstruction
Principal investigators: Orchard, Jeff
Motion compensation for radiotherapy of the abdomen and thorax
Principal investigators: Orchard, Jeffery
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Chris Eliasmith and Jeff Orchard: 2 shared papers
- Jeff Orchard and vasudevan Lakshminarayanan: 1 shared paper
- Cheriton School of Computer Science
- Philosophy
- Optometry and Vision Science
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