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Andrew Felch
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I am a research assistant professor in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College and hold the
position of laboratory manager. I completed my PhD in Artificial
Intelligence at UCI in 2006.
Research:
By studying the anatomical
structure and physiological operation of brain circuits my collaborators
and I aim to replicate their behavior in computer simulations. Early
results of small scale simulated circuits have shown that they perform
clustering, classification, and recognition - and larger scale studies of
multiple circuits are now yielding evidence of unsupervised learning of
visual object structure and language syntax.
With visual object
recognition, language, and motor learning under development, two enabling
projects are also being pushed forth in tandem. The first is an
affordable robot platform, called "BrainBot", that is capable of embodying
brain-derived algorithms so that they can be analyzed in terms of robot
behavior. The second is design and development of a computer
architecture that can run large scale brain
simulations in real-time (early
results).
Publications:
Granger R, Petrovic S, Felch A, Kerr J, Johnson
M, Wuerth C, Benvenuto
J. (2004) Engines of the brain: The computational instruction set of
perception and cognition. MIT AAAI Symposium (P.Winston,
Ed). CA: AAAI Press.
Felch, A., Moorkanikara-Nageswaran,
J., Furlong, J., Chandrashekar, A., Dutt, N., Nicolau, A., Veidenbaum, A., Granger, R. H. (2007) Accelerating
Brain Circuit Simulations of Object Recognition with a Sony PlayStation
3. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovative
Architectures.
Felch, A., Granger, R. H. (2007) The hypergeometric connectivity hypothesis: Divergent
performance of brain circuits with different synaptic connectivity
distributions. Brain Research Special Edition, Accepted.
Furlong, J., Felch, A., Moorkanikara-Nageswaran, J., Chandrashekar,
A., Dutt, N., Nicolau,
A., Veidenbaum, A., Granger, R. H. (2007) A Brain
Derived Vision System Accelerated by FPGAs.
Proceedings of ParaFPGA Conference: Parallel
Computing with FPGA's.
Contact Information:
- Name: Andrew C. Felch
- Email: Andrew DOT Felch AT dartmouth
DOT edu
- Phone: (603)646-0160
- Mail: Andrew Felch
Research Assistant Professor & Laboratory Manager
Neukom Institute for Computational Science
Dartmouth
College
HB 6255
Hanover, NH 03755
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