Joseph Sirosh
Ph.D. Alumni
Joseph is Vice President for Transaction Risk Management at Amazon, Inc., in Seattle.
Publications
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A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1998
Risto Miikkulainen, James Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh, In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'98), Volume 2, S. Usui, T. Omori (Eds.), pp. 815-818, Kitakyushu, Japan 1998.
Self-Organization, Plasticity, and Low-Level Visual Phenomena in a Laterally Connected Map Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1997
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh, In Perceptual Learning, R. L. Goldstone and P. G. Schyns and D. L. Medin (Eds.), pp. 257-308 1997.
A Neural Network Model of Topographic Reorganization Following Cortical Lesions 1996
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology: Building a Man in the Machine - Proceedings of the First World Congress Part II, M. Witten (Eds.), pp. 887-901, 1996. Teaneck, NJ: ...
Introduction: The Emerging Understanding of Lateral Interactions in the Cortex 1996
Risto Miikkulainen and Joseph Sirosh, In Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function, Sirosh, J., Miikkulainen, R., and Choe, Y. (Eds.) 1996. Electronic book, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96.
Lateral Interactions In The Cortex: Structure And Function 1996
Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (editors), Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96/. Austin, TX: The UTCS Neural Networks Research Group
Laterally Interconnected Self-Organizing Maps In Hand-Written Digit Recognition 1996
Yoonsuck Choe, Joseph Sirosh, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, David S. Touretzky and Michael C. Mozer and Michael E. Hasselmo (Eds.), pp. 736-742 1996. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Self-Organization and Functional Role of Lateral Connections and Multisize Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex 1996
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 3 (1996), pp. 39-48.
Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex 1996
Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen and James A. Bednar, In {P}roceedings of the {I}nternational {C}onference {on} {A}rtificial {N}eural {N}etworks, Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen and Yoonsuck Choe (Eds.), pp. 1147-1152, Berlin 1996. Springer...
Topographic Receptive Fields and Patterned Lateral Interaction in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1996
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Computation, Vol. 9 (1996), pp. 577-594.
A Model Of Visually Guided Plasticity Of The Auditory Spatial Map In The Barn Owl 1995
Andrea Haessly, Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 154-158 1995. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex 1995
Joseph Sirosh, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI95-237.
Modeling Cortical Plasticity Based On Adapting Lateral Interaction 1995
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In The Neurobiology of Computation: {T}he Proceedings of the Third Annual Computation and Neural Systems Conference, James M. Bower (Eds.), pp. 305-310 1995.
Ocular Dominance and Patterned Lateral Connections in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1995
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, Gerald Tesauro and David S. Touretzky and Todd K. Leen (Eds.), pp. 109-116 1995. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cooperative Self-Organization Of Afferent And Lateral Connections In Cortical Maps 1994
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, Biological Cybernetics (1994), pp. 66-78.
Self-Organizing Feature Maps With Lateral Connections: Modeling Ocular Dominance 1994
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, M. C. Mozer and P. Smolensky and D. S. Touretzky and J. L. Elman and A. S. Weigend (Eds.), pp. 31-38 1994.
How Lateral Interaction Develops In A Self-Organizing Feature Map 1993
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (San Francisco, CA), pp. 1360-1365 1993. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Projects
Self-Organization in the Primary Visual Cortex: The RF-LISSOM Model 1995 - 1997
Vision-Driven Development of Auditory Spatial Maps 1995 - 1997
LISSOM: Laterally Interconnected Self-Organizing Maps 1987 - 1997
Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex 1987 - 2009
Areas of Interest
Applications Brain and Cognitive Disorders Cognitive Science Computational Neuroscience Unsupervised Learning, Clustering, and Self-Organization Visual Cortex
Software/Data
LISSOM

The LISSOM package contains the C++, Python, and Scheme source code and examples for training and testing firing-rate...

2004
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks