Dr. Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn

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Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn is a theoretical physicist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in the UK and has worked with ultracold quantum gases in the Theory Condensed Matter Group at the Cavendish Laboratory. Ngampruetikorn has held postdoctoral positions at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, Northwestern University in Illinois, and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He is affiliated with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), working with the Center for Physics of Biological Function, which is a joint effort with Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental principles that govern the microscopic components that conspire to generate new collective behavior at macroscopic scales. This includes phenomena such as magnetism, bird flocking, and synchronous neural activity. His current research aims to uncover the fundamentals of learning in complex biological and physical systems, particularly through deep neural networks. Ngampruetikorn leverages his training in condensed matter theory and applies concepts and methods from statistical physics and information theory to explore collective effects associated with learning and inference in both natural and artificial systems.

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