Alessandro Marin Vargas

I am currently a PhD student in the A. Mathis group at the EPFL. My main goal is to reverse engineer the computational mechanisms that govern the sensorimotor system to improve the control of robots and neuroprostheses. My main interests lie at the intersection between Artificial intelligence and Neuroscience.

I graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2017 and I finished my M. Sc. in Bionics Engineering jointly organized at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Pisa University (Italy) in 2019. Thanks to the Giovanni Armenise Harvard fellowship, I did my master thesis in the Harvey lab at the Harvard Medical School in collaboration with Professor Stefano Panzeri. Afterwards, I continued the project of my master thesis as research intern in the Neural computation lab at IIT (Rovereto, Italy).

news

Apr 20, 2024	“Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception” published in Cell! 🎉

selected publications

Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception

Alessandro Marin Vargas, Axel Bisi, Alberto S Chiappa, and 3 more authors

Cell 2024

Bib

@article{vargas2024task,
  title = {Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception},
  author = {{Marin Vargas}, Alessandro and Bisi, Axel and Chiappa, Alberto S and Versteeg, Chris and Miller, Lee E and Mathis, Alexander},
  journal = {Cell},
  volume = {187},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1745--1761},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

Latent exploration for reinforcement learning

Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Ann Zixiang Huang, and 1 more author

NeurIPS 2023

Bib

@article{chiappa2023latent,
  title = {Latent exploration for reinforcement learning},
  author = {Chiappa, Alberto Silvio and Vargas, Alessandro Marin and Huang, Ann Zixiang and Mathis, Alexander},
  journal = {NeurIPS},
  year = {2023},
}

DMAP: a Distributed Morphological Attention Policy for Learning to Locomote with a Changing Body

Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, and Alexander Mathis

NeurIPS 2022

Bib

@article{chiappa2022dmap,
  title = {DMAP: a Distributed Morphological Attention Policy for Learning to Locomote with a Changing Body},
  author = {Chiappa, Alberto Silvio and Marin Vargas, Alessandro and Mathis, Alexander},
  journal = {NeurIPS},
  year = {2022},
}

Measuring and modeling the motor system with machine learning

Sebastien B Hausmann, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Alexander Mathis, and 1 more author

Current opinion in neurobiology 2021

Bib

@article{hausmann2021measuring,
  title = {Measuring and modeling the motor system with machine learning},
  author = {Hausmann, Sebastien B and Vargas, Alessandro Marin and Mathis, Alexander and Mathis, Mackenzie W},
  journal = {Current opinion in neurobiology},
  volume = {70},
  pages = {11--23},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}