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Mar 12, 2026 I will be at Cosyne 2026 next week presenting some new work on β€œSimultaneous sensorimotor and contextual inference”. Looking forward to seeing many familiar and new faces in Lisbon and Cascais!
Feb 26, 2026 New preprint β€œTactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time” on bioRxiv!
May 01, 2025 I just joined the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at the University of Cambridge.
Mar 06, 2025 I successfully defended my PhD thesis Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action with distinction!
Oct 31, 2024 My shared first-author paper with Tobias Niehues β€œInverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors” has been accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025. Preprint available!
Apr 04, 2024 My paper β€œIf it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control” with Constantin Rothkopf has been accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint on PsyArXiv available now!
Feb 08, 2024 I will be at VSS 2024 with three abstracts on continuous psychophysics, Bayesian modeling, and intuitive physics. Write me an email if you want to meet :)
Jan 12, 2024 New paper published in Nature Human Behaviour with Tobias Thomas, Fabian Tatai and others: Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making.
Sep 29, 2023 Our submission to NeurIPS 2023 has been accepted! Check out our preprint on arXiv.
Apr 21, 2023 New paper out today in Psychological Research: Huaiyong Zhao, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: People learn a two-stage control for faster locomotor interception
Apr 06, 2023 Our submission to CogSci 2023 has been accepted! Fabian Tatai, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: β€˜People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk’
Sep 29, 2022 My paper with Constantin Rothkopf β€˜Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics’ has been published in eLife!
Jun 30, 2022 Our keynote & tutorial β€˜Putting perception into action: Inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics’ has been accepted to the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN).
Feb 23, 2022 I will be receiving a John I. Yellott Travel Award at the 2022 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Jan 28, 2022 I am participating in COSYNE with a poster: Dominik Straub, Matthias Schultheis, Constantin Rothkopf: Inferring implicit sensorimotor costs by inverse optimal control with signal dependent noise
Sep 28, 2021 New paper accepted at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): Matthias Schultheis, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: Inverse Optimal Control Adapted to the Noise Characteristics of the Human Sensorimotor System