Ábel Ságodi
PhD Student in CATNIPLAB at Champalimaud Research, supervised by Memming Park.
Hi, I’m Ábel Ságodi. I am a PhD student at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, working at the intersection of theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and control theory. With a background in Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Science (MSc & BSc from the University of Amsterdam), I approach the brain as a complex dynamical system. I am fascinated by how biological circuits, despite being noisy and biological, can perform robust computation. I draw inspiration from the philosophy of science to develop an interpretable language for this computation, finding the right mathematical abstractions to understand how the brain actually works.
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| Jul 15, 2026 | Our paper Data-Enabled Local Reach-Avoid Control Near Saddle Equilibria with a Neuronal Interpretation got accepted for the 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)! This is joint work with Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Xuehao Ding and Dmitri B. Chklovskii. |
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| May 10, 2026 | Two posters were accepted for Dynamics Days Europe! The first one is Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees in collaboration with Memming Park, while the second is Piecewise Projective Maps for Analytical Solutions of Spiking Neural Network Dynamics with Ildefonso Ferreira Pica and Bill Podlaski. |
| Apr 23, 2026 | I will be giving a talk at the Minisymposium: Dynamics, Computations and Learning in Living Systems (organized by Kalel Rossi and Aneta Koseska) at Dynamics Days Europe on 07-23-2026. |