Awesome NeuroAI - A Comprehensive Resource Collection

An attempt of an undergrad to create a curated repository of computational neuroscience and brain-inspired artificial intelligence resources, which can also including Data Science, pure Math, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and not constrictively limiting beyond those topics. Leave a star if you believe I can make it, or follow me if you don't.

SaberToaster, 2025

📚 General Resources

Category	Resource	Description	URL
MOOCs	Computational Neuroscience (Coursera)	Old but gold, recommended if you're from CS like me	Coursera
MOOCs	Machine Learning Specialization	Typical	Coursera
MOOCs	Deep Learning Specialization	Core neural network architectures and optimization	Coursera
MOOCs	Neuroscience for Machine Learners	It's just more friendly with CS ppl I promise	Course, Videos
Blog	Christopher Olah	AnthropicAI co-founder	Link
Blog	Aman Chadha	AWS GenAI Chief Research Scientist	Link
Blog	Charles Frye	Graduate student in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Homepage, CNS
MOOCs	Michelle R. Greene, Ph.D	Selfpaced course to learn what they're teaching neuroscientists	Link
MOOCs	Predictive Brain Lab	Heavy NeuroAI resources	Link
Youtube	Deepia	This guy make cool visualization	Link
Youtube	3🟦1🟫	This guy also make cool visulization I guess?	Link
Youtube	Computerphile	I promise it's related	Link
Youtube	Sebastian Lague	Okay now this's not related at all, but prepare for cool game building stuff	Link
Youtube	Artem Kirsanov	He covers most of computational neuroscience concepts in animations	Link
External Links	Neuromatch Academy	Open computational neuroscience education, which offers CNS, DL and NeuroAI	Link
		Feel free to contribute through PRs

📖 Foundational _{or not} Literature

Mathematics & Computational Methods

Paper/Book	Authors	Year	Key Contribution	URL	Notes
Neuronal Dynamics	Wulfram Gerstner et al		[Left to be written later]	Book	Recommended for people with background in physics
Theoretical Neuroscience	Dayan & Abbott	2001	Mathematical framework for neural computation		Essential textbook, both for CS and physics
Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience	Izhikevich	2007	Mathematical models of neuronal dynamics
Neural Engineering	Eliasmith & Anderson	2003	Neural representation and transformation principles		NEF methodology

Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning

Paper/Book	Authors	Year	Key Contribution	URL	Notes
Attention Is All You Need	Vaswani et al.	2017	Transformer architecture fundamentals		Revolutionary attention mechanism

Neuroscience Foundations

Paper/Book	Authors	Year	Key Contribution	URL	Notes
What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain	Lettvin et al.	1959	Feature detection in visual system		Classic computational neuroscience
Hopfield Model is All You Need
Spiking Neural Network
Computational neuroscience: a frontier of the 21st century				PDF

NeuroAI Integration

Paper/Book	Authors	Year	Key Contribution	URL	Notes
The Genomic Bottleneck	Zador	2019	Constraints on innate vs learned neural computation		Influential perspective paper
Surrogate Gradient Learning in SNN	Neftci et al.	2019	Training spiking neural networks		SNN learning algorithms
Deep Learning with Spiking Neurons	Pfeiffer & Pfeil	2018	Neuromorphic deep learning approaches		Hardware-software co-design
Towards Spike-Based Machine Intelligence	Roy et al.	2019	Comprehensive SNN survey		State-of-the-art review
Brain-Inspired AI	Hassabis et al.	2017	Neuroscience-AI bidirectional influence		DeepMind perspective

🏛️ Research Institutions & Labs

Institution	Professor/PI	Research Focus	Location	URL
MIT McGovern Institute	Multiple PIs	Computational neuroscience	Cambridge, MA
Stanford Wu Tsai	Multiple PIs	Neural computation and AI	Stanford, CA
DeepMind Neuroscience	Multiple researchers	Brain-inspired AI	London, UK
Allen Institute	Christof Koch	Large-scale brain mapping	Seattle, WA
HHMI Janelia	Multiple PIs	Neural circuits and computation	Ashburn, VA
ETH Zurich INI	Multiple PIs	Neuromorphic engineering	Zurich, Switzerland
Cold Spring Harbor Laboraty		NeuroAI research internship + postdocs	NYC, US	Homepage
IT:U	Jie Mei	Neuromodulatory	Austria	Homepage
EPFL	Wulfram Gerstner	Computational Neuroscience	Switzerland	Homepage
EPFL	Martin Schrimpf	NeuroAI	Switzerland	Homepage
KWANGWOON University	Young-Seok Choi	Neuroengineering and Artificial Intelligence Lab	Korea	Homepage
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Ru-Yuan Zhang	Cognitive Computational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging	Shanghai, China	Homepage

📰 Journals & Publication Venues

Venue	Type	Focus	Impact Factor	URL
Nature Neuroscience	Journal	High-impact neuroscience research	>20
Neuron	Journal	Cellular and systems neuroscience	>15
Neural Computation	Journal	Computational neuroscience theory	~3
PLoS Computational Biology	Journal	Open-access computational biology	~4
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience	Journal	Open-access computational approaches	~3
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks	Journal	Neural network engineering	~8
NeurIPS	Conference	Neural Information Processing Systems	?
COSYNE	Conference	Computational and Systems Neuroscience	?
ICLR	Conference	International Conference on Learning Representations	?
CNS	Conference	Cognitive Neuroscience Society	?
International Conference on the Mathematics Of Neuroscience and AI	Conference	Mathematics Of Neuroscience and AI	?	Site

🛠️ Software & Computational Tools

Tool	Category	Description	Language	URL
Brian2	SNN Simulation	Clock-driven neural network simulator	Python

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Tips that I found helpful when trying to tackle everything at once.

1. To be written
2. Research, Summer Program