Shirin Dora received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the Human Brain Project, under the supervision of Dr. C. Pennartz and Dr. S. Bohte. His research during doctoral studies involved deep neural networks and spiking neural networks. He is currently researching on building theoretical models of multisensory integration in the brain.