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Antonio Carlos COSTA

Chercheur
JRC post-doctorant
Biologie
Physique
comportement animal, dynamique des réseaux neuronaires, physique statistique, systèmes dynamiques, inférence, théorie de l'information
ENS-PSL
Département de physique
Département de biologie
, modifié le
7 décembre 2021
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CostaAntonio
Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS (LPENS)
46 Rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
Autre laboratoire
Institut de biologie de l’ENS (IBENS)

Background in theoretical physics, and generally interested in complex dynamical phenomena and the interface between dynamical systems theory and statistical mechanics.

Champ de recherche

My main research focus is the dynamics of animal behavior, which ultimately is the scale at which evolution plays a role : animals need to move appropriately in order to find food, mates, and adapt to changing environments.

Leveraging high resolution tracking methods, I mainly work with time series data and develop analysis techniques to unravel new insights on the genetic and neuromuscular control mechanisms underlying behavior.  In analysing such time series, I combine ideas from dynamical systems theory, statistical mechanics, inference and information theory to build effective predictive models of animal movement.

Combined with detailed data analysis, I construct effective physical descriptions of the observed dynamics with the aim to provide deeper insight into the observations.

Publications

  • Antonio Carlos Costa, Tosif Ahamed, David Jordan, Greg Stephens (2021) Maximally Predictive Ensemble Dynamics from Data arXiv : 2105.12811
  • Laetitia Hebert, Tosif Ahamed, Antonio Carlos Costa, Liam O'Shaugnessy, Greg Stephens} (2021) WormPose: Image synthesis and convolutional networks for pose estimation in C. elegans PLoS Comput Biol
  • Tosif Ahamed, Antonio Carlos Costa, Greg Stephens (2019) Capturing the Continuous Complexity of Behavior in C. elegans Nature Physics
  • Antonio Carlos Costa, Tosif Ahamed, Greg Stephens (2019) Adaptive locally-linear models of complex PNAS
  • Stephen Helms, Mathijs Rozemuller, Antonio Carlos Costa, Leon Avery, Greg Stephens, Thomas Shimizu (2019) Modeling the ballistic-to-diffusive transition in nematode motility variation in exploratory behavior across species J. Royal Soc. Interface