Research

Below, you will find an overview of my PhD work. Stay tuned for updates on my current research.
See also my Google Scholar or Orcid pages. My dissertation is published here.

Hardware implementation

• Bouhadjar, Y., Siegel, S., Tetzlaff, T., Diesmann, M., Waser, R., and Wouters, D. J. (2023). Sequence learning in a spiking neuronal network with memristive synapses. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering.
• Siegel, S., Bouhadjar, Y., Tetzlaff, T., Waser, R., Dittmann, R., & Wouters, D. J. (2023). System model of neuromorphic sequence learning on a memristive crossbar array. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering.
• Siegel, S., Ziegler, T., Bouhadjar, Y., Tetzlaff, T., Waser, R., Dittmann, R., & Wouters, D. (2023). Demonstration of neuromorphic sequence learning on a memristive array. In Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference.

Algorithmic development

• Benmeziane, H., Ounnoughene, A. Z., Hamzaoui, I., & Bouhadjar, Y. (2023). Skip Connections in Spiking Neural Networks: An Analysis of Their Effect on Network Training. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13563.
• Bouhadjar, Y., Wouters, D. J., Diesmann, M., and Tetzlaff T. (2023). Coherent noise enables probabilistic sequence replay in spiking neural networks. PloS Computational Biology
• Bouhadjar, Y., Wouters, D. J., Diesmann, M., & Tetzlaff, T. (2022). Sequence learning, prediction, and replay in networks of spiking neurons. PloS Computational Biology.
• Oberländer, J., Bouhadjar, Y., & Morrison, A. (2022). Learning and replaying spatiotemporal sequences: A replication study. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
• Bouhadjar, Y., Diesmann, M., Waser, R., Wouters, D. J., & Tetzlaff, T. (2019). Constraints on sequence processing speed in biological neuronal networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems(pp. 1-9).

Master thesis work

• Marois, V., Jayram, T. S., Albouy, V., Kornuta, T., Bouhadjar, Y., & Ozcan, A. S. (2018). On transfer learning using a MAC model variant. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06529.
• Kornuta, T., Marois, V., McAvoy, R. L., Bouhadjar, Y., Asseman, A., Albouy, V., … & Ozcan, A. S. (2018). Accelerating Machine Learning Research with MI-Prometheus, manuscript.
• Jayram, T. S., Bouhadjar, Y., McAvoy, R. L., Kornuta, T., Asseman, A., Rocki, K., & Ozcan, A. S. (2018). Learning to remember, forget and ignore using attention control in memory. Preprint arXiv:1809.11087.