Hi,
I'm Silvester Sabathiel

About me

I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at NTNU Trondheim, Norway. My research focus is in machine learning and mathematical cognition, where I mostly use deep learning algorithms in computer vision and NLP to simulate how mathematical concepts can be learned in an interactive environment. My background is in theoretical physics, where I have been working on simulations for modified theories of gravity.

Research

Publications

	Sabathiel, S., McClelland, J. L., & Solstad, T. (2020). A computational model of learning to count in a multimodal, interactive environment. In Proceedings of the Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Accepted for publication.
	Sabathiel, S., McClelland, J. L., & Solstad, T. (2020, July). Emerging Representations for Counting in a Neural Network Agent Interacting with a Multimodal Environment. In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings (pp. 736-743). One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA journals-info@ mit. edu: MIT Press.
	Creatore, C., Sabathiel, S., & Solstad, T. (2021). Learning exact enumeration and approximate estimation in deep neural network models. Cognition, 215, 104815.

Thesis

Sabathiel, S. Palatini f(R, Q)-gravity applied on the structure of neutron stars. Master thesis - Theoretical Physics pdf

Sabathiel, S. Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Bachelor thesis pdf

CV

Professional Experience

April- July 2019	Stanford University/USA – California Research Visitor at the PDP lab, Project on Mathematical Cognition
Sept. 2018 - today	NTNU Trondheim/Norway PhD Researcher in Computer Science/Mathematical Cognition
July 2017 - August 2017	Joanneum Research ROBOTICS, Klagenfurt/AUSTRIA Research group “Cognitive Robotics”: 3D-sensoring
April 2016 – Sept. 2016	Joanneum Research ROBOTICS, Klagenfurt/AUSTRIA Research group “Cognitive Robotics”: development of a robot head
July 2015 - August 2015	ZAMG (Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics), Salzburg/AUSTRIA Technical assistance

Education

March 2016 - July 2018	TU-Graz, Graz/AUSTRIA Information and Computer Engineering (master's program) Special Focus on Robotics and Computational Intelligence
April 2015 - July 2018	Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz/AUSTRIA Physics (master’s program) Special Focus on Theoretical and Computational Physics
January 2014 - June 2014	Ångströmlaboratoriet - Uppsala universitet, Uppsala/SWEDEN Physics (Erasmus program)
October 2011 - March 2015	Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz/AUSTRIA Physics (bachelor’s program)

Literature

Here is a selection of books that I recommend.