Selma Souihel

Selma Souihel
PhD Candidate, Biovision, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Université Côte d’Azur

I am a PhD student at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, within the team Biovision, under the supervision of Dr. Bruno Cessac, working on « Generic and specific computational principles for integration of motion trajectories ». This thesis has been entirely funded by the ANR project “Trajectory” (ANR-15-CE37-0011), with the coordination of Dr. Frédéric Chavane from Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, in collaboration with Dr. Olivier Marre from Institut de la Vision and Pr. Alain Destexhe and Dr. Matteo di Volo from Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay. 

During my PhD, I modeled the retina and the primary visual cortex in the context of motion encoding and anticipation. The aim was to understand the biological and phenomenological mechanisms accounting for motion extrapolation, and to emphasize potential mechanisms induced by long range interations between cells

Email: selma.souihel at inria.fr

Publications

• A mean-field approach to the dynamics of networks of complex neurons, from nonlinear Integrate-and-Fire to Hodgkin-Huxley models. M. Carlu, O. Chehab, L. Dalla Porta, D. Depannemaecker, C. Héricé, M. Jedynak, E. Köksal Ersöz, P. Muratore, S. Souihel, C. Capone, Y. Zerlaut, A. Destexhe M. di Volo (under review).
•  An integrated retino-cortical model for motion anticipation. S. Souihel, M. Di Volo,S. Chemla, F. Chavane, A. Destexhe and B. Cessac (paper under preparation):
  • September 2019, European retina meeting, Helsinki, Finland (poster)
  • July 2019, Neuromod conference, Fréjus, France (talk)
  • June 2019, ICMNS conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (talk)
  • June 2019, Workshop on Visuo-motor Integration, Paris, France (talk)
  • June 2019, Waves Cote d’Azur conference, Nice, France (talk)

•  A computational model of anticipation in the retina. S. Souihel and B. Cessac (paper under preparation):

  • December 2018, GDR Neural Net, Paris, France (poster prize)
  • September 2018, Bernstein conference, Berlin, Germany (poster)

• A generalized model of the retina for motion processing. S. Souihel and B. Cessac. June 2018, Cauca conference, Fréjus France

• Processing various motion features and measuring RGC pairwise correlations with a 2D retinal model. Selma Souihel, Frédéric Chavane, Olivier Marre and Bruno Cessac :

  • June 2018, AREADNE conference, Santorini, Greece (poster)
  • June 2018, ICMNS conference, Juan les Pins, France (poster)

• Motion processing in the retina. S. Souihel and B. Cessac. November 2017, GD Neural Net, Strasbourg, France

• How does the retina anticipate the motion of complex shapes ? S. Souihel and B. Cessac. September 2017, Bernstein conference, Goettingen, Allemagne

• Modifying a biologically inspired retina simulator to reconstruct realistic responses to moving stimuli. S. Souihel, B. Cessac. June 2017, Cauca conference , Fréjus, France

Organisation of Conferences and Seminars

• PhD Seminars every two weeks at Inria Sophia Antipolis : 2017-2019

• MOMI2018 & MOMI2019 (Le MOnde des Mathematiques Industrielles) : 2017-2019

• Gretsi 2017

Education

• 2019 : PhD in Computer Science, applied to Computational Neuroscience “Generic and specific computational principles for integration of motion trajectories »

• 2016 : Engineering degree in bioinformatics and biomedical devices from Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne

Teaching

• Digital transmissions, Department of Networks and Telecommunications, Université Côte d’Azur, 2017-2019

• Networks and security, Department of Networks and Telecommunications, Université Côte d’Azur, 2017-2019

• Advanced networking, Department of Computer Science, Université Côte d’Azur, 2016-2017

Science dissemination

• Stages Maths C2+ at Inria Sophia Antipolis, June 2018

• Fete de la Science, Inria Sophia Antipolis, October 2017 & October 2018