Research Bio
Michael DeWeese is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Physics. His group’s research spans three broad areas: nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, machine learning theory, and systems neuroscience. Their work in these different areas is linked by several unifying ideas, including stochasticity, high dimensionality, non-convex optimization, learning and prediction, and the statistics of natural data. Many of their projects involve inspiration or tools from one of these fields applied to questions from another.
Research Expertise and Interest
machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics
Teaching
Senior Research Thesis [NEU 191]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 199]
Neuroscience Graduate Research [NEU 292]
Neuroscience Research Review [NEU 295]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 99]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196A]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196B]
Research [PHYSICS 299]
Introductory Mechanics and Relativity [PHYSICS 5A]
Thesis Course [INTEGBI H196A]
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience [NEU 151]
Senior Research Thesis [NEU 191]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 199]
Neuroscience Graduate Research [NEU 292]
Neuroscience Research Review [NEU 295]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 99]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196A]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196B]
Supervised Independent Study [PHYSICS 199]
Special Study for Graduate Students [PHYSICS 295]
Special Study for Graduate Students [PHYSICS 295]
Research [PHYSICS 299]
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Physics [PHYSICS 49]
Introductory Physics [PHYSICS 8A]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 199]
Neuroscience Graduate Research [NEU 292]
Neuroscience Research Review [NEU 295]
Supervised Independent Study [NEU 99]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196A]
Honors Research Thesis [NEU H196B]
Research [PHYSICS 299]
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Physics [PHYSICS 49]
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Physics [PHYSICS 49]
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Physics [PHYSICS 49]
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Physics [PHYSICS 49]
Introductory Mechanics and Relativity [PHYSICS 5A]