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2019 \|2018 \|2017 \|2016 \|2015 \| 2014 \| 2013 \| 2012 \| 2011 \| 2010 \| 2009 \| 2008 \| 2007 \| 2006 \| 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003 \| 2002 \| 2001 \| 2000 \| 1999 \| 1998 \| 1997 \| 1996 \| 1995 \| 1994 \| 1993 \| 1992 \| 1991 \| 1990 Thesis title is linked to electronic version if available. 2019 Vineet Augustine Nueral Architecture Underlying Thirst Regulation Joun Hong Ryan Cho Optical Imaging of Dopamine Dynamics and Decoding its Role in Arousal and Salience Jeffrey Edlund Numerical Investigation of Spinal Neuron Faciliation with Multi-electrode Epidural Stimulation Vipul Sunghal Modeling, Computation, and Characterization to Accelerate the Development of Synthetic Gene Circuits in Cell-Free Extracts
2018
Jaron Colas Value-Based Decision Making and Learning as Algorithms Computed by the Nervous System Yong-Jun Lin Human Duration Perception Mechanisms in the Subsecond Range: Psychophysics and Electroencephalography Investigations Juri Minxha Single-Neuron Correlates of Visual Object Representationin the Human Brain: Effects of Attention, Memory and Choice Luke Urban An Electrophysical Study of Voluntary Movement and Spinal Cord Injury Gabriela de Oliveira Penna Tavares Computation and Comparison of Value Signals in Simple Perceptual and Economic Choices 2017
Rahul Bhui Essays on Timing and Economic Behavior Krzysztof Chalupka Automated Macro-scale Casual Hypothesis Formation Based on Micro-Scale Observation Akram Sadek Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing Yanan Sui Online Learning for the Control of Human Standing via Spinal Cord Stimulation 2016
Yazan Billeh Functional, Clustered, Feedforward, and Mesoscale Brain Networks Bo Chen Quantum of Vision Simon Dunne Neural and Hormonal Systems Underlying Human Reward-Seeking Behavior Gideon Nave Mechanisms Underlying Economic Choice Soyoung Park Connectivity and Function of the Primate Insula Britton Sauerbrei Firing Patterns of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells During Locomotion and Sleep 2015
Laura Anne Harrison Real-World Social Cognition: Context Effects in Face and Threat Processing Andreas Hoenselaar The Structure of Hippocampal Activity During REM Sleep Daniel Ciarán McNamee Neural and computational representations of decision variables Boris Revechkis Neural Prosthetics and Parietal Cortex Zakary Singer Metastability and Dynamics of Stem Cells: From Direct Observations to Inference at the Single Cell Level Niranjan Srinivas Programming chemical kinetics: engineering dynamic reaction networks with DNA strand displacement Noelle Stiles Behavioral and fMRI Measures of Crossmodal Plasticity Induced by Auditory Sensory Substitution Nicolette Sullivan The Neurocomputational Basis of Self-Control Success and Failure Teagan Rose Wall Effects of TI-299423 on Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
2014
Virgil Griffith Qyantifying Synergistic Information Shabnam Hakimi Characterization of the Neural Mechanisms Supporting the Implementation of Cognitive Control in Human Decision Making Xiaodi Hou Computational Modeling and Psychophysics in Low- and Mid-Level Vision Lauren LeBon The Logic of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in the Notch Signaling Pathway Debajyoti Ray Efficient Methods for Empirical Tests of Behavioral Economics Theories in Laboratory and Field Experiments Rangoli Sharan Formal Methods for Control Synthesis in Partially Observed Environments: Application to Autonomous Robotic Manipulation Marie Patricia Suver Octopamine Neurons Mlediate Flight-Induced Modulation of Visual Processing in Drosophila mdanogaster Shuo Wang Social Saliency: Visual Psychophysics and Single-Neuron Recordings in Humans Daniel Karl Wilhelm (MS) Shcngxuan Ye (MS)
2013
Nadine L. Dabby Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs, and Experimental Study Julien Dubois Studying Conscious and Unconscious Vision with fMRI: the BOLD Promise Gregory S. Griffin Learning and Using Taxonomies for Visual and Olfactory Classification Sina Tootoonian On the Analysis and Design of the Locust Olfactory System Peter Thomas Weir Polarization-based Navigation in Drosophila Charlotte Ling Yang (MS)
2012
Dionysios Barmpoutis Network structure optimization with applications to minimizing variance and crosstalk Ronald Bryan William Ford I. Quantal Effects in Biochemical Cooperativity and a Proposed Mechanism for the Differentiation of Calcium Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity. II. Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Methods in Computational Chemistry Joseph Levine Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis Alice Lin Neural and behavioral investigations of social reward processing Christin Montz (MS) Matthew J. Nelson Understanding and applying extracellular recordings in awake, behaving animals Jason Tyler Rolfe Intrinsic gradient networks Robert Chess Abernathy Stetson Interaction of planning regions in cortex Nils Peter Egon Welinder Hybrid human-machine vision systems: image annotation using crowds, experts and machines
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
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
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)

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 Group leader, 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 Group leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Visually mediated control of flight in Drosophila: not lost in translation Rebecca Schulman The Self-Replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals 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


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

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

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

2003
Grace Chang Neural representation of surface ordering in visual Areas V1, V2 and MT

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 Fellow, Janellia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Neural dynamics underlying complex behavior in a songbird

2001
Ben Arthur Senior Software Engineer, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 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

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

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 Deceased 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

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

1997
Carlos Brody-Pellicer Professor, Molecular Biology, Princeton 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

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 Marcus Mitchell Dynamical simulation and control of articulated limbs Josee Morissette Plasticity in mammalian somatosensory cerebellar maps

1995
Vance Carl Bjorn (MS) Kurt 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

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

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)

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

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 An analysis of olfactory cortical behavior and function using computer simulation techniques

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