Dabal Pedamonti

I am a postdoc in the Cognition, Anatomy & Neural Networks Research Group with Seán Froudist-Walsh at the University of Bristol. I am also a visiting postdoc in the Neural and Machine Learning Group at the University of Oxford, working with Rui Ponte Costa. My research focuses on decision-making in artificial and natural agents, at the intersections of deep reinforcement learning, robotics, and computational neuroscience.

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Contact: dabal.pedamonti [at] gmail.com

Research

Psilocybin enables flexible learning reinstating plasticity in fixed synapses

Pedamonti D*, Froudist-Walsh S
RLDM, 2025

Cerebellum drives hippocampal networks for stable goal-driven navigation

Pedamonti D*, Pemberton J, Costa RP
RLDM, 2025

Hippocampal networks support reinforcement learning in partially observable environments

Pedamonti D*, Mohinta S*, Dimitrov M, Malagon-Vina H, Ciocchi S and Costa RP
Poster at ACAIN 2021, CoSyNe 2022, and NAISys 2022
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Achieving Goals using Reward Shaping and Curriculum Learning

Mihai Anca, Jonathan D Thomas, Dabal Pedamonti, Mark Hansen, Matthew Studley
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference
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Education

2019 - 2024

PhD in Machine Learning, University of Bristol

2014 - 2019

MEng (Hons) Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh