Elias Najarro

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I'm a Ph.D. fellow at the Creative AI Lab, IT University of Copenhagen; advised by Sebastian Risi. My background is in physics and computational neuroscience.
I'm currently working on applying ideas from Self-Organization and Bio-Inspired systems to machine learning. Particularly, how they can be utilised for Meta-Learning, Open-Endedness and scientific applications.

Previously, I wrote my MSc thesis on computational neuroscience at BergLab, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen. I hold an BSc degree in Physics from Sorbonne University and a Master in Computational Physics from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen.

My interests are broad and I'm always keen on collaborating with other researchers
—notably if from a different discipline. If you have an idea for a potential collaboration you'd like to discuss, feel free to reach out.

Publications

    2023

  1. S Sudhakaran, M González-Duque, C Glanois, M Freiberger, E Najarro, S Risi
    Pre-print

  2. 2022

  3. Kamila M Jozwik, Elias Najarro, JF van den Bosch, Ian Charest, Radoslaw M Cichy, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
    Peer-reviewed paper Cognitive Neuroscience Communications Biology
  4. Elias Najarro, Shyam Sudhakaran, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper RL Self-organization ICLR From Cells to Societies Workshop, 2022
  5. Shyam Sudhakaran, Elias Najarro, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper RL Self-organization ICLR From Cells to Societies Workshop, 2022
  6. Sidney Pontes-Filho, Kathryn Walker, Elias Najarro, Stefano Nichele, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GECCO Companion 2022

  7. 2021

  8. Shyam Sudhakaran, Djordje Grbic, Siyan Li, Adam Katona, Elias Najarro, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper Self-organization Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2021
  9. Djordje Grbic, Rasmus B Palm, Elias Najarro, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper Applications of Evolutionary Computation — EvoStar, 2021
  10. Machine-learning Methods Applied to Inverse Problems in Motor Neuronal Networks
    Elias Najarro. Supervised by James Avery & Rune Berg
    MSc Thesis Computational Neuroscience University of Copenhagen, 2021

  11. 2020

  12. Elias Najarro, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper RL NeurIPS, 2020
  13. Rasmus B Palm, Elias Najarro, Sebastian Risi
    Peer-reviewed paper RL Pre-registration workshop NeurIPS, 2020