BiNDS Lab
The Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory at the Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst was created to advance research in biologically-inspired computing and computational methods applied to Biology and Medicine.

BINDS Lab is now hiring!

    We are accepting applications for research assistants, graduate students and post-doc fellows. Please email with your CV, research statement and letters of recommendations to: hava@cs.umass.edu

Lab News:

  1. We just won the DARPA Time-Aware Machine Intelligence grant. 
  2. BINDS lab is a leader in Lifelong Learning – the next stage of AI
  3. U.S. Patent 10,732,784, B2 entitled “System and Methods for Cuing Visual Attention,” issued November 4, 2020
  4. PNAS: A modeling framework for adaptive lifelong learning with transfer and savings through gating in the prefrontal cortex. Nov. 5 2020. 
  5. Nature Communications: Brain-inspired replay for continual learning with artificial neural networks. News story in Science Daily. Aug. 8 2020
  6. Hava Siegelmann received the DARPA’s Meritorious Public Service Medal. 
  7. Interview in Federal News Network. 
  8. Washington Post article mentions Hava’s program Lifelong Learning as “mind-blowing”. Nov 15 2020 

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