Alexander Mathis, PhD | Assistant Professor. Our work strives to understand how the brain creates complex behavior. To achieve that goal, in part, we develop tools for the measurement of behavior and make sure that they are broadly accessible to the community.

Alexander Mathis is an Austrian mathematician, computational neuroscientist and software developer. He is currently an assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. His research interest focus on research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning.

We are a team lead by Prof. Mackenzie Mathis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). The lab revolves around two interactive areas: developing open source machine learning tools & uncovering neural dynamics during adaptive behaviors.

We develop machine learning tools for behavioral, and neural data analysis and conversely try to learn from the brain to solve challenging machine learning problems such as learning motor skills or estimate poses in crowded scenes. Check out some of our research direction below.

Alexander Mathis is an assistant professor at the Brain Mind Institut. He is working at the intersection of computational neuroscience, and machine learning, focusing on trying to understand the statistics of behavior and how the brain creates behavior.

Jan 23, 2025 · Broadly speaking, we work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning. Ultimately, we are interested in reverse engineering the algorithms of the brain, in order to figure out how the brain works and to build better artificial intelligence systems.

July 2023: Mackenzie W. Mathis and Alexander Mathis are the winners of the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize 2023. The focus of their collective work is uncovering the theoretical and neural basis of mechanisms underlying adaptive behaviour in intelligent systems.

A Mathis, T Biasi, S Schneider, M Yüksekgönül, B Rogers, M Bethge, ... Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference / arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11229 , 2021 155

Aug 1, 2020 · 2020 to 2025 (School of Life Sciences, Brain Mind Institute, Prof Alexander Mathis Group)

Alexander Mathis is an Assistant Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. He grew up in Austria and studied pure mathematics with a minor in logic and theory of science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.