Research Activities

Journal Publications

Pokala, S. D., Bernert, M., Nanami, T., Kohno, T., Lévi, T., & Yvert, B. (2025).
A frugal Spiking Neural Network for unsupervised multivariate temporal pattern classification and multichannel spike sorting.
Nature Communications, 16, 9218 (2025).

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Pokala, S. D., Bernert, M., Nanami, T., Kohno, T., Lévi, T., & Yvert, B. (2024).
A frugal Spiking Neural Network for unsupervised classification of continuous multivariate temporal data.
arXiv preprint (May 2024).

Conference Proceedings

Mazna, G. R.*, Pokala, S. D.*, & Martinet, J. (2026).
Human gaze-based filtering for action recognition: a systematic study of accuracy and efficiency.
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2026), Padua, Italy. Springer LNCS.
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Mazna, G. R., Pokala, S. D., & Martinet, J. (2026).
Exploring deep learning for event-based saliency prediction with a Transformer-based model.
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2026), Melbourne, Australia.

_{* Equal contribution}

Patents

Pokala, S. D., Bernert, M. & Yvert, B. (2025).
Nouvel algorithme neuromorphique pour le spike sorting.
European Patent Application EP25306284, August 2025.

Conference Presentations

Neuroscience 2022 — San Diego, California, USA — November 2022
Poster — Unsupervised classification of vocal and speech patterns with artificial Spiking Neural Networks

CORTICO Days 2022 — Autrans, France — March 2022
Poster — Development of an unsupervised Spiking Neural Network for the classification of spectro-temporal patterns

Neuroscience 2021 — virtual — November 2021
Poster — Development of an unsupervised Spiking Neural Network for vocal and speech patterns classification

Scientific Training

ISRC-CN3 Autumn School — Derry, United Kingdom — October 2022
Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI Autumn School

ISRC-CN3 2022 formal dinner — Derry, United Kingdom