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Dutch neuroscientist
Koene's academic career includes a tenure as a professor at Boston University Center for Memory and Brain and co-founding the Neural Engineering Corporation of Massachusetts. He also established MindUploading.org. He first proposed the term and specific approach called whole brain emulation, aimed at achieving mind transfer to a different substrate.
In his professional research, Koene focuses on implementing whole brain emulation, which involves creating large-scale, high-resolution representations and emulations of neuronal circuitry activity. This work is essential for developing patient-specific neuroprostheses. Additionally, he contributed to the Oxford working group convened in 2007, which aimed at formulating the initial roadmap towards whole brain emulation.
Koene has professional expertise in computational neuroscience, psychology, information theory, electrical engineering and physics. He organizes neural engineering efforts to obtain and replicate functional and structural information from the neural substrate for use in neuroprostheses and neural interfaces. Using NETMORPH, his computational framework for simulating the morphological development of neuronal circuitry, Koene's lab is developing a Virtual Brain Laboratory. This laboratory aims to provide neuroscientists, neuroengineers, and clinicians with large-scale, high-resolution quantitative tools analogous to the computational tools essential in fields such as genetics, chemistry, and aerospace industry.
Randal Koene in October 2014