I believe that we reached the time when AI and neuroscience have to advance together. That is why after graduating medical school, I moved to Germany to do a master degree in integrative neuroscience with a special focus on computational neuroscience and data analysis, studied machine learning and taught myself deep learning. My goal is to develop novel machine learning-based data analysis techniques that are capable of handling the vast amount of neural data produced in neuroscience labs and help accelerate neuroscience research. Moreover, I concur with the philosophy of neuroscience-inspired AI research and believe that accelerating the neuroscience research will benefit the AI field itself. Additionally, because of my medical background, I am also interested in applying machine learning to healthcare problems. I have practiced medicine for a period of time before turning to research and I see how machine learning can empower healthcare specialists especially in ambiguous scenarios and scenarios that require fast decision making.
Influencing clinical diagnoses and treatments by data mining analysis- and modeling-driven neuroscience.
Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence.
| Peer-reviewed papers | Farahat, A., Lu, D., Bauer, S., Neubert, V., Costard, L.S., Rosenow, F. and Triesch, J., (2022). Diagnosing Epileptogenesis with Deep Anomaly Detection. Proceedings of the 7th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, PMLR 182:1-18 |
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| Voegtle, A., Terlutter, C., Nikola, K., Farahat, A., Hinrichs, H., Sweeney-Reed, C., (2022). Suppression of Motor Sequence Learning and Execution Through Anodal Cerebellar Transcranial Electrical Stimulation. The Cerebellum. doi:10.1007/s12311-022-01487-0 | |
| Terzic, L., Voegtle, A., Farahat, A., Hartong, N., Galazky, I., Nasuto, S.J., Andrade, A.D.O., Knight, R.T., Ivry, R.B., Voges, J. and Buentjen, L., Sweeney-Reed, C., (2022). Deep brain stimulation of the ventrointermediate nucleus of the thalamus to treat essential tremor improves motor sequence learning. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25989 | |
| Farahat, A., Reichert, C., Sweeney-Reed, C. M., & Hinrichs, H. (2019). Convolutional neural networks for decoding of covert attention focus and saliency maps for EEG feature visualization. Journal of Neural Engineering. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab3bb4 | Preprints | Farahat A, Effenberger F, Vinck M (2022) A novel feature-scrambling approach reveals the capacity of convolutional neural networks to learn spatial relations. arXiv. doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2212.06021 |
| Master thesis | Deep Learning for EEG Decoding and Automatic Feature Discovery. |
| Abstracts and Posters | Farahat A, Effenberger F, Vinck M (2022). The role of spatial relations among CNN features of different granularities in object recognition. Bernstein Conference 2022. doi:10.12751/nncn.bc2022.285 |
| Farahat A, Lu D, Bauer S, Rosenow F, Triesch J (2021) P2. Unsupervised anomaly detection for diagnosing brain disorders from EEG Recordings – results from a rodent epilepsy model. Clinical Neurophysiology. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2021.02.327 | |
| Farahat A, Effenberger F, Vinck M (2021) How do convolutional neural networks understand shape? Champalimaud Research Symposium. | |
| Farahat A, Hinrichs H, Heinze H-J, Sweeney-Reed CM (2019) Implicit motor learning modulates functional connectivity of DBS therapeutic target for tremor. Clinical Neuroradiology, 29(1), 32–33. doi:10.1007/s00062-019-00826-9 | |
| Farahat A, Reichert C, Sweeney-Reed CM, Hinrichs H (2018) Convolutional neural networks for EEG decoding and exploration of brain dynamics. Bernstein Conference 2018. doi:10.12751/nncn.bc2018.0092 | |
| Farahat A, Hinrichs H, Heinze H-J, Sweeney-Reed CM (2017) Can The Ventral Intermediate Nucleus Of The Thalamus Be Divided Into Functionally Distinct Subregions Differentially Involved In Motor Learning And Essential Tremor? 5th HBP Winter School 2017. |
Apart from my scientific interests, in my free time I like to read and watch documentries, movies and sci-fi TV shows.
I am also passionate about cooking and like to explore different kinds of food.
My favourite sports are biking and swimming.