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My name is Toby Lightheart. I have created this website to communicate my machine learning research.
My primary machine learning research interest is continuous or life-long learning, i.e., machines that are capable of continuing to learn during operation. Some specific techniques that I am interested in exploring are:
- Constructive algorithms to adapt the artificial neural networks size during operation to improve learning capabilities.
- Selective networks to use neuron activity to select which neurons take part in inference and training.
I completed a PhD in Engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia. My PhD thesis is titled Constructive Spiking Neural Networks for Simulations of Neuroplasticity. See my [Research page]({{site.baseurl}}{% link research.md %}) for some research outputs and a link to my thesis and a detailed summary.
I'm currently employed as a Modelling and Simulation Engineering at Inovor Technologies.
Project updates on various technology projects (machine learning, robotics, data science, embedded software, etc) will be made in [Posts]({{site.baseurl}}{% link posts.md %}).
When work achieves sufficient maturity, it may be written up as a technical report or otherwise published and shared in [Research]({{site.baseurl}}{% link research.md %}).
Writing and essays on technologies and their use and implications may also appear here.
I am planning to share code from these projects on GitHub: https://github.com/tobylightheart.
Literature surveys and reviews and notes from other study will appear in the [Study]({{site.baseurl}}{% link study.md %}) page. I am also experimenting with TiddlyWiki as a notebook for study and writing research notes: my TiddlyWiki.
I have another blog website (tobylightheart.wordpress.com) where I intend to discuss the development of learning techniques for people and a range of philosophical topics.