Selected Publications

Here is a list of selected publications. You can find the full list of publications on my Google Scholar profile

Conferences and Journals

Identifiability Guarantees for Drivers and Dynamics of Delayed Physical Systems
J. Boussard, A. Debouchage, T. Saulus
Submitted at ICLR, 2026
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2-Dimensional spectral gating for denoising bioacoustics recordings
J. Boussard, M. Teng, S. Saha, M. Gallego-Abenza
Submitted at ICASSP, 2026
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Learning Hierarchical Causal Representations of the Effects of Forcings on Temperature in Climate Models
S. Zhao, I. Trajkovic, J. Kaltenborn, Y. Gurwicz, P. Nowack, D. Rolnick, J. Boussard
Representations for the Physical Sciences Workshop, NeurIPS 2026 (Oral)
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Identifying birdsong syllables without labelled data
M. Teng*, J. Boussard*, D. Rolnick, H. Larochelle
ICASSP, 2026
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Causal Climate Emulation with Bayesian Filtering
S. Hickman, I. Trajkovic, J. Kaltenborn, F. Pelletier, A. Archibald, Y. Gurwicz, P. Nowack, D. Rolnick, J. Boussard
NeurIPS, 2025
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DREDge: robust motion correction for high-density extracellular recordings across species
C. Windolf, H. Yu, A. C. Paulk, D. Meszéna, W. Muñoz, J. Boussard, R. Hardstone, I. Caprara, M. Jamali, Y. Kfir, D. Xu, J. Chung, K. Sellers, Z. Ye, J. Shaker et al.
Nature Methods, 2024
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Ultra-high density electrodes improve detection, yield, and cell type specificity of brain recordings
Z. Ye, A. Shelton, J. Shaker, J. Boussard, J. Colonell, S. Manavi, S. Chen, C. Windolf, C. Hurwitz, T. Namima, F. Pedraja, S. Weiss, B. Raducanu, T. Ness, G. Einevoll et al.
Neuron, 2023
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DARTsort: A modular drift tracking spike sorter for high-density multi-electrode probes
J. Boussard, C. Windolf, C. Hurwitz, H. Lee, H. Yu, O. Winter, L. Paninski
BiorXiv, 2023
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Bypassing spike sorting: Density-based decoding using spike localization from dense multielectrode probes
Y. Zhang, Tianxiao He, J. Boussard, C. Windolf, O. Winter, E. Trautmann, N. Roth, H. Barrell, M. Churchland, N. A. Steinmetz, E. Varol, C. Hurwitz, L. Paninski
NeurIPS 2023 (spotlight)
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Three-dimensional spike localization and improved motion correction for Neuropixels recordings
J. Boussard*, E. Varol*, H. D. Lee, N. Dethe, L. Paninski
NeurIPS 2021
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Decentralized Motion Inference and Registration of Neuropixel Data
E. Varol*, J. Boussard*, N. Dethe, O. Winter, A. Urai, The International Brain Laboratory, A. Churchland, N. Steinmetz, L. Paninski
ICASSP 2021
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Learning interpretable continuous-time models of latent stochastic dynamical systems
L. Duncker, G. Bohner, J. Boussard, M. Sahani
ICML 2019, Oral
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PhD Thesis

Localizing Spike Sources for Improved Registration, Spike-Sorting, and Decoding in Large-Scale Neuropixels Recordings
Julien Boussard
PhD Thesis, Columbia University, 2024
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