Symposium · Summer 2026
A one-day Symposium showcasing the computational neuroscience research on the Island of Ireland.
// 01 — About
This is the third All Island Computational Neuroscience Symposium. It will be hosted on the Grangegorman Campus of TU Dublin.
The symposium brings together researchers from across Ireland to present their work using approaches ranging from differential equations to machine learning methods to model, analyse, and simulate neuroscience data.
The organisers are John Butler (TU Dublin) and Áine Byrne (UCD).
// 02 — Schedule
Provisional Schedule, Monday 24th August 2026| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Opening & Registration Social | Organizers |
| 10:30 | Awake infant fMRI and developmentally inspired deep neural networks reveal the development of coarse and fine feature tuning in infant visual cortex | Áine T. Dineen (TCD) |
| 11:00 | Neural Oscillations as Selective Controllers of Decision Confidence, Speed, and Accuracy | KongFatt Wong-Lin (UU) |
| 11:30 | Coffee and Tea Social | — |
| 11:45 | Lightning Talks 1 | Brendan Lenfesty, Brian Skelly, Dasharath Rathod, Geletaw Sahle Tegenaw, Indranil Ghosh, James McAllister, Maram A. Mohamed, Niamh Fennelly |
| 12:20 | Lightning Talks 2 | Ondrej Zika, Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Qingkai Zhu, Ruslan Kurmashev, Tara McGuire,Teo Fantacci, Umesh Mudavath, Valentina Constantin, Zahra Azizi |
| 13:00 | Lunch Social | — |
| 14:00 | TBA | Mark Cunningham (TCD) |
| 14:30 | Memristive Dynamics for Memory and Adaptation in Neuromorphic Systems | Xinming Shi (Queens University) |
| 15:00 | Digital Biomarkers of speech, sleep and movement for Huntington’s disease | Emer Doheny (UCD) |
| 15:30 | Cortex-wide computational models of cognitive functions | Seán Froudist-Walsh (TCD/Oxford University) |
| 16:00 | Closing Reception social | — |
// 03 — Speakers
// 04 — Lightening Talks
| Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Brendan Lenfesty |
Emergent behaviour in an Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Network during Perceptual and Working memory tasks |
| Brian Skelly |
Network model with biophysically based excitatory receptor dynamics |
| Dasharath Rathod |
A unified simulation platform for predicting multi-neurotransmitter behaviour at electrochemical interfaces |
| Dr Geletaw Sahle Tegenaw |
NeuroBench Studio: Vibe Coding for EEG — A No-Code Platform for EEG Deep Learning, Foundation Models, and Visual Pipeline Orchestration |
| Dr Indranil Ghosh |
The vR-FCD framework for detecting communities of similar neural spike trains |
| James McAllister |
Exact dynamics of linear recurrent neural networks during cognitive tasks |
| Maram A.Mohamed |
Explainable AI for Microsleep Detection and Prediction Using EEG and EOG Signals |
| Niamh Fennelly |
Emergent Dynamics in Neural Field Models with Synchrony-Driven Plasticity |
| Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|
| Prof. Ondrej Zika |
Complexity priors in anxiety |
| Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk |
Rapid and Scalable Computational Phenotyping of Cognition Using Simulation-Based Inference |
| Qingkai Zhu |
Dual Regulation of Gap Junctions: Modelling Voltage- and pH-Dependent Gating |
| Ruslan Kurmashev |
Transfer Learning Across Heterogeneous Autism Datasets: Toward Robust Computational Models of Neurodevelopmental Risk |
| Dr Tara McGuire |
Analysis of the impact of electrode design and stimulation settings on network oscillations during deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease |
| Teo Fantacci |
Mechanistic computational models for cognition |
| Umesh Mudavath |
Neural latent representation of implicit perceptual decision confidence signatures from brainwide intracranial EEG |
| Valentina Constantin |
A multilingual composite speech index to assess passage reading in Huntington’s disease |
| Dr Zahra Azizi |
State and Trait: How Acute Autonomic Arousal Modulates the Temporal Dynamics of Multisensory Perception |
// 05 — Register
Deadline: 15 August 2026 for registration and Lightning Talk submissions.
If you have any questions just contact us.
// 06 — Related Events
Another Computational Neuroscience event happening this summer is the Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI (CN3) Summer School (12 August to 19 August) which is held at Ulster University in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In person registration is closed but there is an option for online registration. For more information go to the website.
// 07 — Support
