This Website

My name is Toby Lightheart. I have created this website to communicate my machine learning research.

My primary machine learning research interest is continuous or life-long learning, i.e., machines that are capable of continuing to learn during operation. Some specific techniques that I am interested in exploring are:

• Constructive algorithms to adapt the artificial neural networks size during operation to improve learning capabilities.
• Selective networks to use neuron activity to select which neurons take part in inference and training.

I completed a PhD in Engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia. My PhD thesis is titled Constructive Spiking Neural Networks for Simulations of Neuroplasticity. See my Research page for some research outputs and a link to my thesis and a detailed summary.

I’m currently employed as a Modelling and Simulation Engineering at Inovor Technologies.

Project updates on various technology projects (machine learning, robotics, data science, embedded software, etc) will be made in Posts.

When work achieves sufficient maturity, it may be written up as a technical report or otherwise published and shared in Research.
Writing and essays on technologies and their use and implications may also appear here. I am planning to share code from these projects on GitHub: https://github.com/tobylightheart.

Literature surveys and reviews and notes from other study will appear in the Study page. I am also experimenting with TiddlyWiki as a notebook for study and writing research notes: my TiddlyWiki.

I have another blog website (tobylightheart.wordpress.com) where I intend to discuss the development of learning techniques for people and a range of philosophical topics.