Gabriel Béna
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- Lab member: 2021-2026
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PhD thesis
Physical constraints and functional demands shape modular neuromorphic intelligence - Website
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My interests are broad but have lately aligned with the field of neuromorphic engineering. I study the structure-function relationship in neural-networks, understanding how structural modularity relates to functional specialization and compositional knowledge abilities, especially in resource-constrained architectures. I’ve also studied Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), especially the topic of multimodal integration, and I am currently an active developer of the SNN software stack for SpiNNaker2. Finally, I am fascinated by self-organising systems and have recently been trying to understand how continuous neural cellular automata can be harnessed as a universal computational medium.
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Publications
Note that only publications as part of the Neural Reckoning group are included here (see external publications below for full list).
2026
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Béna G
(2026)
Physical constraints and functional demands shape modular neuromorphic intelligence.
PhD thesis, Imperial College London
2025
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Béna G, Faldor M, Goodman DFM, Cully A
(2025)
A Path to Universal Neural Cellular Automata.
GECCO
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Ghosh M, et al.
(2025)
Spiking neural network models of interaural time difference extraction via a massively collaborative process.
eNeuro
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Béna G, Goodman DFM
(2025)
Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints.
Nature Communications
2024
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Ghosh M, Béna G, Bormuth V, Goodman DFM
(2024)
Nonlinear fusion is optimal for a wide class of multisensory tasks.
PLoS Computational Biology
External publications
This is a short preview of the publications from other sources (ORCID, Semantic Scholar). Note that publications from work done outside the Neural Reckoning group are included in this list.
2026
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Barylli, Marcello, Béna, Gabriel, Mordvintsev, Alexander, Nisioti, Eleni, Risi, Sebastian (2026)
Self-Organising Digital Circuits -
Béna, Gabriel (2026)
Physical constraints and functional demands shape modular neuromorphic intelligence
Imperial College London
2025
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Gabriel Béna, Maxence Faldor, Dan Goodman, Antoine Cully (2025)
A Path to Universal Neural Cellular Automata
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion -
Gabriel Béna, Dan F. M. Goodman (2025)
Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints
Nature Communications
2024
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Gabriel Béna, Timo Wunderlich, Mahmoud Akl, Bernhard Vogginger, Christian Mayr, Hector Andres Gonzalez (2024)
Event-based backpropagation on the neuromorphic platform SpiNNaker2
NICE 2025 -
Marcus Ghosh, et al. (2024)
Spiking neural network models of sound localisation via a massively collaborative process