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			<h1>About</h1>
			<p>The people behind ELEKTRONN.</p>
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	<p><strong>ELEKTRONN</strong> was created by <strong>Marius Killinger</strong> and <strong>Gregor Urban</strong> at the <a href="http://www.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/en"><em>Max Planck Institute For Medical Research</em></a> in Heidelberg and the <a href="http://www.neuro.mpg.de/denk"><em>Max Planck Institute Of Neurobiology</em></a> in Munich in the department of Winfried Denk to solve connectomics tasks.</p>

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					<h6>Marius Killinger</h6>
					<p>Lead developer <a class="tag" href="mailto:Marius.Killinger@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de"><i class="material-icons">email</i> Contact</a></p>
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					<h6>Sven Dorkenwald</h6>
					<p>Prediction of TB-sized image datasets, developer, recursive training</p>
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					<h6>Jörgen Kornfeld</h6>
					<p>Academic supervisor, weak training regulariser</p>
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					<h6>Gregor Urban</h6>
					<p>Creation of initial code (at Fred Hamprecht’s lab), many helpful discussions, lazy labels</p>
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					<h6>Martin Drawitsch</h6>
					<p>Code refactoring, testing, packaging</p>
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	<h2 class="section-heading">Special Thanks to: <span class="heading-icon"><i class="material-icons">cake</i></span></h2>

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		<li><strong><a href="http://www.neuro.mpg.de/325676/employee_page?c=3242756&employee_id=43294">Fabian Svara</a></strong> for many helpful discussions and feedback.</li>
		<li><strong><a href="http://web.mit.edu/elm/www/">Emily Mackevicius</a></strong> (PhD candidate at MIT) for helpful feedback and many comments on our documentation.</li>
		<li>The <strong><a href="https://github.com/Theano/Theano/graphs/contributors">Theano team</a></strong> for their great platform that allowed us to build this toolkit.</li>
		<li>Sebastian Spaar for designing this website.</li>
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