GSOC 2026 Project #29 : Enhancing simulation-based inference from neuroimaging

Mentor/s: Meysam HASHEMI <meysam.hashemi@gmail.com/ meysam.hashemi@univ-amu.fr>

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

Required skills: Signal analysis, simulations of differential equations, Python and Git; familiarity with neural mass models, JAX, and techniques such as deep neural density estimators would be beneficial.

Time commitment: Full time (350 hours)

About: Virtual Brain Inference (VBI) is a flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on virtual brain models. It provides fast simulations of whole-brain models and deep neural density estimators in Python. Extending the scalable implementation to JAX and adding automatic feature extraction will facilitate the use cases.

Aims:

Reproduction of existing use cases,

Changing model parameters and testing,

Integrating new tools to existing workflows,

Use cases in form of notebooks.

The final output will be a lightweight demonstrator with clear documentation, enabling users to quickly run a standardized example. Website: GitHub - ins-amu/vbi: Virtual Brain Inference ยท GitHub