
Robert Tjarko Lange
Doctoral researcher
mail: robert.t.lange@tu-berlin.de
Robert Tjarko Lange works at the intersection of machine learning and behavioural biology. His research combines tools from top-down optimisation (e.g. Reinforcement Learning) with bottom-up phenomenological modelling. Thereby, nature and nurture are analysed from a complementary perspective and not as forces that trade-off. Before joining SCIoI, he obtained a MSc in Computing from Imperial College London and conducted research within the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin.
At SCIoI, Robert is working on Project 12.
SCIoI Publications:
Vischer, M., Lange, R., & Sprekeler, H. (2022). On Lottery Tickets and Minimal Task Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning. ICLR 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.01648
Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Who is my interlocutor? Partner-specific neural representations during communicative interactions with human or artificial task partners. 5th Virtual Social Interactions (VSI) Conference.
Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Am I speaking to a human, a robot, or a computer? Neural representations of task partners in communicative interactions with humans or artificial agents. Neuroscience 2021.
Lange, R., & Sprekeler, H. (2022). Learning not to learn: Nature versus Nurture in Silico. AAAI 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2010.04466
Gómez-Nava, L., Lange, R. T., Klamser, P. P., Lukas, J., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Bierbach, D., Krause, J., Sprekeler, H., & Romanczuk, P. (2023). Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nature Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01916-1