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2011
Ryan Gomes
Towards Open Ended Learning: Budgets, Model Selection, and Representation

Merrielle Spain
Modeling and Predicting Object Attention in Natural Scenes

John Delacruz (MS)
Reliability and Functional Connectivity of Projection Neurons in the Locust Antennal Lobe
2010

Klaus Wunderlich
Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain

Kai Shen
Olfactory Object Identification and Generalization in the Insect Brain

Anusha Narayan
Transfer at C. Elegans Synapses

Dirk Neuman
Connectivity of the Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

David Yu Zhang
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits

Ming Gu
Interactions between hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1 during slow-wave sleep

2009
Rajan Bhattacharyya
Egocentric Distance Encoding in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

Signe Bray

Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Associative Learning on Valuation and Decision-Making in Humans

Moran Cerf

Competition and Attention in the Human Brain Eye-Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Healthy Controls and Individuals with Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Hilary Glidden

Tracker Effector-Specific and Motor Planning Signals in human Frontal and Parietal Cortices: Relevance for Goal-Directed Action and Neural Prosthetics

Alexander Huth
(MS)

Casimir Wierzynski
Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions
2008
Grant Mulliken
Continuous Sensorimotor Control Mechanisms in Posterior Parietal Cortex: Forward Model Encoding and Trajectory Decoding

Ueli Rutishauser

Learning and Representation of Declarative Memories by Single Neurons in the Human Brain

David Soloveichik

Molecules Computing: Self-Assembled Nanostructures, Molecular Automata, and Chemical Reaction Networks

Jonathan Young
(MS)
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2007
Ulrik Beierholm
Bayesian modeling of sensory cue combinations

Michael Campos
Eye movements and reward, sequential states, and context-dependent target selection

Carl Gold

Biophysics of extracellular action potentials

Alan Hampton

Model-based decision making in the human brain

Alex Holub
Discriminative vs. generative object recognition: objects, faces, and the web

Vivek Jayaraman

Fellow, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neural circuit dynamics and ensemble coding in the locust and fruit fly olfactory system

Farshad Moradi

Conscious awareness determined by selective gating of information in early visual areas

Dylan Nieman

Postdiction and the effects of spatial, temporal, and feature compatibility on sensory integration

Kerstin Preuschoff

Neural representations of expected reward and risk during gambling

Michael Reiser

Fellow, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Visually mediated control of flight in Drosophila: not lost in translation

Tracy Teal

Studies of the spatial organization of metabolism in Shewanella oneidensis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Stephen Waydo

Explicit object representation by sparse neural codes
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2006
Bjorn Christianson
Information processing in the interaural time difference pathway of the barn owl

David Allan Drummond

Misfolding dominates protein evolution

Ania Mitros

A compact system for self-motion estimation

Patricia A. Neil

Development of audiovisual integration in human infants: the effects of spatial and temporal congruency and incongruency on response latencies

Eric Slimko
Selective Silencing of Vertebrate Neurons: Strategies Using Invertebrate Ligand-Gated Ion Channels

Dirk Walther

Beckman Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interactions of visual attention and object recognition : computational modeling, algorithms, and psychophysics
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2005
Stephanie Chow
Speciation in digital organisms

Matthew Cook
Oberassistent, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich
Networks of relations

Evan Dorn
Universal biosignatures for the detection of life

Ofer Mazor

Neural dynamics and population coding in the insect brain

Daniella Meeker

Cognitive neural prosthetics: brain machine interfaces based in parietal cortex

Saleem Mukhtar
Interval modulation: a new paradigm for the design of high speed optical communication systems

Lavanya Reddy
(MS)

Leila Reddy

Attention and the processing of natural stimuli: psychophysics, fMRI and single unit recordings in the human brain

Naotsugu Tsuchiya
Attention and awareness : visual psychophysics and aversive conditioning in humans
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2004
Javier Perez-Orive
Neural oscillations and the decoding of sensory information

Rob J. Peters
Visual attention and object categorization: from psychophysics to computational models
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2003
Grace Chang
Neural representation of surface ordering in visual Areas V1, V2 and MT
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2002
David Dubowitz
Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Diego
Functional magnetic resonance imaging in rhesus macaque monkeys

Adam Hayes
Self-organized robotic system design and autonomous odor localization

Gabriel Kreiman
(MS)
Assistant Professor, Childrens Hospital, Boston
Neural coding and feature extraction of time-varying signals

Anthony Leonardo
Researcher, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neural dynamics underlying complex behavior in a songbird

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2001
Ben Arthur
Neural computations leading to space-specific auditory responses in the barn owl

Daniel Fain
Kinematic measurement and feature sets for automatic speech recognition

Yukiyasu Kamitani

Psychobiophysics of transcranial magnetic stimulation

Fidel Santamaria-Perez
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
Processing of mossy fiber activity in the cerebellar cortex: a combination of computer modeling and electrophysiological experiments

Michael Vanier

Realistic computer modeling of the mammalian olfactory cortex

Katsumi Watanabe
Crossmodal interaction in humans
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2000
Christine Chee-Ruiter
The biological sense of smell: olfactory search behavior and a metabolic view for olfactory perception

Jason Davis
(MS)

Heather Dean (MS)

Michael Gibson

Computational methods for stochastic biological systems

Luis Goncalves

Automatic observation and synthesis of human motion

Reid Harrison

Associate Professor, University of Utah
An analog VLSI motion sensor based on the fly visual system

Laurent Itti

Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Models of bottom-up and top-down visual attention

Sanza Kazadi

Swarm engineering

David Kewley (MS)

Amit Manwani

Information-theoretic analysis of neuronal communication

John Pezaris
Research Fellow Harvard Medical School
Response of multiple simultaneously recorded macaque area LIP neurons in a memory saccade task

David Rosenbluth

Eye position modulation of visual cortex and the sensory set hypothesis

Markus Weber

Unsupervised learning of models for object recognition

JiaJun Wen

What you can see outside the focus of attention
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1999
Aaron Batista
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Contributions of parietal cortex to reach planning

Carlos Herrera
(MS)

Ari Hershowitz (MS)

Elizabeth-Ching Ho

Multiple mechanisms of apparent motion perception

Jennifer Linden

Assistant Porfessor, University College, London
Responses to auditory stimuli in macaque lateral intraparietal area

Mark O'Dell
(MS)

Charles Ofria

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Evolution of genetic codes

Sam Roweis
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Data driven production models for speech processing

Maneesh Sahani

Assistant Professor, University College, London
Latent variable models for neural data analysis

Micah Siegel

Genetically engineered sensors of cell signaling

Randall Spangler
Rule-based analysis and generation of music
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1998

Alejandro Backer (MS; Bio Ph.D. 2002)
Pattern recognition in the olfactory system of the locust: Priming, gain control and coding issues

Vasken Bohossian
Neural logic: theory and implementation

Michael Levene

Assistant Professor, Yale University
Optics in neural computation

Willian Press

Effects of spatial attention on macaque primary visual cortex

Joseph Sill
Monotonicity and connectedness in learning systems

Michael Wehr

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Oscillatory sequences of firing in the locust olfactory system: mechanisms and functional significance

Erik Winfree

Associate Professor, California Institute of Technology
Algorithmic self-assembly of DNA
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1997
Carlos Brody-Pellicer
Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Analysis and modeling of spike train correlations in the lateral geniculate nucleus

Paul Hasler

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Foundations of learning in analog VLSI

Gary R. Holt

A critical reexamination of some assumptions and implications of cable theory in neurobiology

Shih-Chii Liu

Assistant Professor in Neuroinformatics, ETH Zuerich
Neuromorphic models of visual and motion processing in the fly visual system

Bradley Minch

Assistant Professor,  Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Analysis, synthesis, and implementation of networks of multiple-input translinear elements

Rahul Sarpeshkar

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Efficient precise computation with noisy components: extrapolating from an electronic cochlea to the brain

Martin Stemmler

Information maximization and stochastic resonance in single neurons
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1996
Tom Annau
Models of visual feature detection and spike coding in the nervous system

Wyeth Bair

Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
Analysis of temporal structure in spike trains of visual cortical area

Kwabena Boahen
Associate Professor, Stanford University
Retinomorphic vision systems: reverse engineering the vertebrate retina

Timothy Horiuchi

Professor, University of Maryland
Analog VLSI-based, neuromorphic sensorimotor systems: modeling the primate oculomotor system

Christopher Kolb

Two themes in perceptual ecology: visual attention and awareness

Michael Lewicki
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science and Neural Basis of Cognition

Ray Chiang-Shan Li

Macaque lateral intraparietal area and oculomotor behaviorsMarcus Mitchell

Josee Morissette

Plasticity in mammalian somatosensory cerebellar maps
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1995
Vance Carl Bjorn (MS)K

urt Fleischer

A multiple-mechanism developmental model for defining self-organizing geometric structures

Humbert Suarez

Modeling motion detection in striate visual cortex using massive excitatory feedback
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1994

Mohammad Naraghi Bagherpour (MS)

Ronald Benson
Analog VLSI supervised learning system

Hsiaolan Hsu
Properties of the first Genetically Engineered Neuron

Michelle Mahowald

VLSI analogs of neuronal visual processing: a synthesis of form and function

Sylvie Ryckebusch

The central nervous control of walking in the locust

Bruno A. Olshausen

Associate Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
Neural routing circuits for forming invariant representations of visual objects

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1993
Jan Ojvind Bernander
Synaptic Integration and its Control in Neocortical Pyramidal Cells

Alan Blanchard
Sequence specific effects on the incorporation of dideoxynucleotides by a modified T7 polymerase

Tobias Delbruck
Assistant Professor in Neuroinformatics, ETH Zuerich
Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing

Milan Jovovic
(MS)

Adam Strassberg
(MS)
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1992
Brooke Anderson
Various algorithms for optimization and learning in adaptive systems

David MacKay

Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK
Bayesian methods for adaptive models

Andrew Moore
Spatial filtering in tone reproduction and vision
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1991
Chong Chen (MS)

Stephen DeWeerth

Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Analog VLSI circuits for sensorimotor feedback

John G. Harris

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
Analog models for early vision

Matthew Wilson

Professor of Neurobiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1990
Roberto Battiti
Professor of Information Science, University of Trento, Italy
Multiscale methods, parallel computation, and neural networks for real-time computer vision
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