Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

Ecker, Alexander, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Data Science


  • Since 2019: Professor of Data Science, Department of Computer Science and Campus Institute Data Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2017–2019: Group Leader, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 2013–2016: Postdoctoral fellow with Matthias Bethge, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 2014–2014: Project leader in Nikos Logothetis' Department, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
  • 2008–2013: PhD in Computational Neuroscience with Matthias Bethge and Andreas Tolias, Max Planck Research School of Neural and Behavioral Science, Tübingen, Germany
  • 2008: M.Sc. (Diplom) in computer science, University of Tübingen, Germany



Major Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Homepage Department/Research Group

https://eckerlab.org

Selected Recent Publications


  • Ustyuzhaninov I, Cadena SA, Froudarakis E, Fahey PG, Walker EY, Cobos E, Reimer J, Sinz FH, Tolias AS, Bethge M, Ecker AS (2020): Rotation-invariant clustering of functional cell types in primary visual cortex. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Link
  • Walker EY, Sinz FH, Froudarakis E, Fahey PG, Muhammad T, Ecker AS, Cobos E, Reimer J, Pitkow X, Tolias AS (2019): Inception in visual cortex: in vivo-silico loops reveal most exciting images. Nature Neuroscience. Link
  • Cadena SA, Denfield GH, Walker EY, Gatys LA, Tolias AS*, Bethge M*, Ecker AS* (2019): Deep convolutional models improve predictions of macaque V1 responses to natural images. PLoS Computational Biology. Link | Code | Data
  • Klindt D*, Ecker AS*, Euler T, Bethge M (2017): Neural system identification for large populations separating “what” and “where”. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31. Link | Code
  • Gatys LA, Ecker AS, Bethge M (2015): A neural algorithm of artistic style. arXiv, 1505.07376. Link
  • Ecker AS, Berens P, Cotton RJ, Subramaniyan M, Denfield GH, Cadwell CR, Smirnakis SM, Bethge M, Tolias AS@ (2014): State dependence of noise correlations in macaque primary visual cortex. Neuron, 82(1). Link