About me

I’m Adam Liska, a graduate student at the Functional Neuroimaging Lab of the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) in Rovereto, Italy (map).

I’m interested in medical imaging and data analysis, and my research currently focuses on how brain functional and structural networks are affected in people with autism spectrum disorder and in mouse models with autism-associated genetic mutations [see publications].

I work under the supervision of Alessandro Gozzi.

I did my BSc in Computer Science at Charles University in Prague working on machine translation with Ondřej Bojar, and my MSc in Computer/Cognitive Science at The University of Melbourne/University of Trento working on computer vision, distributional semantics and machine learning with Marco Baroni and Elia Bruni [see theses].

News

• Jun 2017

  I will be spending this autumn at Facebook AI Research in Paris, working on hierarchical reinforcement learning.

• Apr 2017

  I’ll be presenting the following two posters at ISMRM this April/May:

  • Relationship Between Static and Dynamic Brain Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders (abstract)
  • Homozygous Loss of Autism-Risk Gene CNTNAP2 Results in Reduced Local and Long-Range Prefrontal Connectivity (abstract)
• Feb 2017

  I’ll be giving a talk at the Cambridge Connectome Consortium on mouse brain resting-state fMRI connectivity and its applications to study connectivity alterations in autism models on Tuesday, February 28 [slides].

• Jan 2017

  Our paper Homozygous loss of autism-risk gene CNTNAP2 results in reduced local and long-range prefrontal functional connectivity was just accepted to Cerebral Cortex [pdf].

• Nov 2016

  Our paper Can Mouse Imaging Studies Bring Order to Autism Connectivity Chaos? was just published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

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Recent posts

• May 15, 2016

  Multi-arm bandits and the conflict between exploration and exploitation

  We have recently started a reading group on reinforcement learning with a group of colleagues, following the draft of the second edition of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton and Barto. The PDF version of the book is available on the book website; we are using the draft from October 2015 (currently the latest one).

• Feb 4, 2016

  How to download Human Connectome Project data from Amazon Web Services

  All public releases of data produced by the Human Connectome Project (HCP) are available online through the ConnectomeDB. Nevertheless, I’ve had trouble running the Aspera Connect browser plugin – that’s required to download data from the database – on my Ubuntu machine (it crashes whenever I want to initiate a download).