Dr Nicolangelo Iannella

  • Biography/ Background

  • Qualifications

    1990 BSc in Mathematical & Theoretical Physics, The University of Adelaide

    1991 BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics, The Flinders University of South Australia

    1995 MSc via research in Theoretical Physics, The Flinders University of South Australia

    2009 PhD (Dr. Eng) in Computational Neuroscience, The University of Electro-communications, Japan

    Thesis title: Firing Properties and synaptic plasticity in spatial model neurons

  • Teaching Interests

    • Supervision of MSc & PhD students
  • Research Interests

    Area

    • Computational Neuroscience
    • Systems Biology
    • Neural Networks
    • Brain function
    • Stochastic Phenomena
    • Complex systems
    • Multiscale Techniques
    • Neuromorphic Engineering
  • Publications

    Journal Publications

    [1] Rahimi, SMA, Iannella, N, Al-Sarawi, SFK, and Abbott, D. (2014) “Tunable Low Energy, Compact and High Performance Neuromorphic Circuit for Spike-based Synaptic Plasticity.”, PLoS ONE 9(2): e88326.

    [2] Rahimi, SMA, Al-Sarawi, SFK, Abbott, D, and Iannella, N. (2013), A neuromorphic VLSI implementation of spike timing and rate based synaptic plasticity. Neural Networks 45, 70-82. 

    [3] Chappell, J.M., Iqbal, A., Iannella, N., and Abbott, D. (2012), Revisiting special relativity: A natural algebraic alternative to minkowski spacetime. PLoS One 7 (12) e51756. 

    [4] Iannella, N. and Launey, T. and Tanaka, S. (2010), Spike timing-dependent plasticity as the origin of the formation of synaptic efficacy clusters. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 4:21.

    [5] Iannella, N. and Launey, T. and Tanaka, S. (2010), Spike timing-dependent plasticity as the origin of the formation of synaptic efficacy clusters. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 4:21. Supplementary Materials

    [6] Iannella, N. and Tanaka,a S. (2007). Analytical solutions for the nonlinear cable equation with calcium dynamics. II. Saltatory transmission in a sparsely excitable cable model. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 2411--277.

    [7] Iannella, N. and Tanaka, S. (2006). Synaptic efficacy cluster formation across the dendrite via STDP. Neuroscience Letters, 403, 24-29.

    [8] Iannella, N. and Tanaka, S. (2006). Analytical solutions for nonlinear cable equations with calcium dynamics. I. Derivations. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 5, 249-272.

    [9] Iannella, N. and Kindermann, L. (2005). Finding iterative roots with a spiking neural network. Information Processing Letters, 95, 545-551.

    [10] Iannella, N., Tuckwell, H.C., and Tanaka, S. (2003). Firing  properties of a stochastic PDE model of a rat sensory cortex layer 2/3 pyramidal cell. Mathematical Biosciences, 188, 117-132.

    [11] Iannella, N. and Back, A. (2001). A spiking neural network architecture for nonlinear function approximation, Neural Networks, 14, 933--939.

    [12] Roberts, C.D., Cahill, R.T., Sevior, M.E., and Iannella, N. (1994). π - π scattering in a QCD-based model field theory, Physical Review D, 49, 125-137.

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Entry last updated: Saturday, 22 Feb 2014