“Computational Modeling of Generative Episodic Memory” was the title of Zahra Fayyaz's PhD thesis, which she successfully defended on July 22^nd 2026. A big congratulations to her on her achievement from all of us at the FOR 2812. Her model is the corner stone for many of our projects in the proposed CRC "Episodic Memory".

Here are a selection of Zahra's FOR 2812 publications: 

• Fayyaz, Z., Righetti, F., Wiskott, L., & Werning, M.. (2025). Remembering without (representational) memory: a neuro-computational study on regaining categoricity and compositionality from minimal traces. Philosophical Psychology, 1–36. http://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2522966
• Righetti, F., Fayyaz, Z., Wiskott, L., & Werning, M.. (2025). From Minimal Traces to Scenarios of the Past: A Neuro-Computational Model on Regaining Categoricity and Compositionality in Remembering. In Proc. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66g451gj
• Reyhanian, S., Fayyaz, Z., & Wiskott, L.. (2024). Analysis of a Generative Model of Episodic Memory Based on Hierarchical VQ-VAE and Transformer. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2024), Lugano, Switzerland. Springer Nature Switzerland. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72341-4_6
• Fayyaz, Z., Altamimi, A., Zoellner, C., Klein, N., Wolf, O. T., Cheng, S., & Wiskott, L.. (2022). A Model of Semantic Completion in Generative Episodic Memory. Neural Computation, 34(9), 1841–1870. http://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01520
• Fayyaz, Z., Altamimi, A., Cheng, S., & Wiskott, L.. (2021). A model of semantic completion in generative episodic memory. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13537