About Me!
Hi! My name’s Cath, although you may find me using otcathatsya online sometimes, which is a
barely disguised embedding of my name in a word from the book series &
show Shadow and Bone.
I am a comp sci PhD candidate at Jülich Research Center, Germany, studying somewhere along the intersection of machine learning and comp. neuroscience. Originally from Austria and previously studied in the UK!
I am a member of NEST
and my current project is about accelerating simulations of spiking nets with realistic synaptic density on
alternative hardware, more specifically Graphcore’s IPU,
by designing algorithms that can exploit distributed memory and massive parallelism. My hope is to publish the code
alongside the future paper, so stay tuned!
Beyond work I am partial to mountains, climbing them, books (I had a goodreads once but got too lazy), travel, languages, politics and games. Big music enthusiast and amateur vinyl collector. Reckon there’s a STEM stereotype hidden in there somewhere. Did I mention that I love bubble tea?
This is where I advertise projects
In no particular order:
- Simple Tabs As an occassional MC dev I can’t get around advertising the one mod I actually bothered getting into a semi-polished state. It adds chat tabs to filter incoming messages!
- NEST Simulator The de-facto standard for large-scale spiking neural network simulations. Very well maintained, glad to be a small part of its development!
- Remote Camera Something I wrote back for my BSc, this is a very messy but functional app that lets you stream the camera feed of one Android device to the other and send-back captured images based on WiFi-Direct.
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