 <blockquote> I am interested in modeling cortical structures in Neural Networks. Currently, I am working on a hand-written digit recognition system based on lateraly interconnected synergetically self organizing feature map(LISSOM:developed by <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sirosh"> Joseph Sirosh</a> and  <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto"> Prof. Risto Miikkulainen </a>  at <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn"> UTCS Neural Networks Research  Group </a>. Recent work includes extending the LISSOM model to have actual spiking events. The new model called Spiking LISSOM (SLISSOM) can be self-organized as LISSOM and can segment multiple objects in the retina by synchronizing spikes within a group representing the same object, and desynchronizing spikes between groups representing different objects.  <!-- Commented out ------------------------------------------------------------ For more information on my research, refer to <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/yschoe/research.html"> my research outline.</a> <br>
