Frithjof Gressmann

I am a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger at UIUC. My research as part of the Mind in Vitro (MiV) Project centers on machine learning and neural simulation techniques to learn to interact with in vitro neuron cultures.

Research

• Mind in Vitro — Computing with living neurons: NSF Expedition in Computing effort developing the science and technology to fabricate, model, and program systems based on living neurons.

Featured work

1. Position: It Is Time We Test Neural Computation In Vitro. Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Nancy M. Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025. Published · Talk
2. A Primer on in Vitro Biological Neural Networks. Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Sarah Dowden, Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger. NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning with New Compute Paradigms. Published · Manuscript

Papers with Parasol Lab:

• Position: It Is Time We Test Neural Computation In Vitro

  by Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Nancy M. Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), July 2025

• A primer on in vitro biological neural networks

  by Frithjof Gressmann, Ashley Chen, Lily Hexuan Xie, Sarah Dowden, Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger
  NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Machine Learning with new Compute Paradigms, December 2024