Amida Anand

Research

Research

A through-line connects this work: learning and memory understood as dynamical, physical processes — studied with the tools of statistical physics and tested against the brain.

  1. 01
    Statistical physicsComputational neuroscienceLearning

    A Tale of Two Criticalities: How the Brain Learns through the Lens of Criticality

    Applying renormalisation group methods and spin glass theory to model the critical behaviour underlying how biological neural networks learn and consolidate memory.

    Imperial College London 2024–25 Completed
  2. 02
    Cognitive neuroscienceWorking memoryPsychophysics

    Allocation of Visual Working Memory

    How the brain distributes a limited working-memory resource across competing visual items — research internship under Dr Paul Bays.

    University of Cambridge Summer 2023 Completed
  3. 03
    Molecular communicationBio-inspired engineeringInformation theory

    Wireless Molecular Communication via Odours

    Bio-inspired wireless communication systems that encode information in olfactory signals — a two-year research assistantship with Dr Yansha Deng.

    King's College London 2023–25 In progress
  4. 04
    MicrofluidicsBioengineeringLab-on-chip

    Microfluidic Chip Development

    An independent engineering project designing a microfluidic chip for biological sample analysis and lab-on-chip applications.

    Imperial Advanced Hackspace 2024 Completed

Publications

  • 2025

    Computational analysis of learning in young and ageing brains

    Hewavitharana J, Steinhofel K, Giese KP, Ierardi CM & Anand A

    Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

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  • 2025

    Brain Inspired Learning for Neural Networks

    Hewavitharana J, Anand A, Giese P, Moretti Ierardi C, Steinhofel K

    EANN 2025 · Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2581, Springer, Cham

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