Randall C. O'Reilly

Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly
Born	March 1, 1967 (age 58); Denver, Colorado
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University
Known for	Leabra
	Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of Colorado at Boulder
Thesis	The LEABRA model of neural interactions and learning in the neocortex (1996)
Doctoral advisor	James McClelland

Randall Charles O'Reilly (born March 1, 1967) is a professor of psychology and computer science ^[1] at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. His lab moved to UC Davis from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2019. He now works full time at the Astera Institute.

Education

Randall O'Reilly obtained his B.A. at Harvard University and his M.S. at Carnegie Mellon University. He went on to get a Ph.D. in Psychology also at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996, under the supervision of James McClelland. He did postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department.

Research

O'Reilly's research is aimed at developing detailed computational models of the biological basis of cognition. He is most famous for developing of the Leabra recirculating algorithm for learning in neural networks. He has developed a number of successful models of declarative memory,^[2]^[3] the visual system,^[4] and the basal ganglia circuit.^[5]^[6]

He is one of the main developers of the Emergent neural network simulation software.^[7]

References

^ "Randall C. O'Reilly's Home Page".
^ McClelland, J. L.; McNaughton, B. L.; O'Reilly, R. C. (1995). "Why there are complementary learning systems in the Hippocampus and Neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory". Psychological Review. 102 (3): 419–457. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.102.3.419. PMID 7624455.
^ O'Reilly, R. C.; Rudy, J. W. (2000). "Computational Principles of Learning in the Neocortex and Hippocampus". Hippocampus. 10 (4): 389–397. doi:10.1002/1098-1063(2000)10:4<389::AID-HIPO5>3.0.CO;2-P. PMID 10985278. S2CID 3145564.
^ Herd, S. A.; O'Reilly, R. C. (2005). "Serial visual search from a parallel model". Vision Research. 45 (24): 2987–2992. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2005.07.017. PMID 16139862.
^ O'Reilly, R. C.; Frank, M. J. (2006). "Making working memory work: A computational model of learning in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia". Neural Computation. 18 (2): 283–328. doi:10.1162/089976606775093909. PMID 16378516. S2CID 8912485.
^ Frank, M. J.; Loughry, B.; O'Reilly, R. C. (2001). "Interactions between the frontal cortex and basal ganglia in working memory: A computational model". Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 1 (2): 137–160. doi:10.3758/CABN.1.2.137. PMID 12467110.
^ "The emergent neural modeling system". Neural Networks. October 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2013.