Academics
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Core Member (2020-) of the Initiative for Computational Science and Engineering,
Columbia University.
Affiliated Member (2018-) of the Center for Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science and (2013-) of the Centers of Foundations of Data Science and Health Analytics of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University.
Member (2015-) of the Neuro Technology Center (NTC), Columbia University.
Co-Director (2013-) of the Center for Neural Engineering and Computation (CNEC), Columbia University.
Mentor (2010-) of the Columbia Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior.
Founder and Leader (2003-) of the Bionet Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Founder and Leader (1994-2004) of the COMET Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Professor (1988-) of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Recent/Upcoming Talks
The Functional Logic of Odor Information Processing in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe,
Crete Workshop on Neural Circuits and Behaviour of Drosophila, May 28 - June 3, 2023, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Greece.
The Functional Logic of Odor Information Processing in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe,
Workshop on the Functional Logic of Neural Circuits:
Diamonds in the Rough, February 22-24, 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Accelerating the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era,
Drosophila Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits & Behavior,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
July 14, 2022, Cold Spring Harbor, LI.
FlyBrainLab: a Complete Programming Environment for Discovering the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain,
Neurosim Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, May 18, 2022.
Semantic and Syntactic Information in the Age of Connectomics,
Workshop on the Topological and Dynamical Analysis of Brain Connectomes,
Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, May 14-15, 2022.
Recent/Upcoming Workshop Co-Chair
Functional Logic of Neural Circuits: Diamonds in the Rough
FLNDR*2024, February 28 - March 1, 2024,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FLNDR*2023, February 22-24, 2023,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FLNDR*2022, February 23-25, 2022,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FLNDR*2021, June 10-11, 2021 (virtual meeting).
Video Talks Archive
FlyBrainLab: Accelerating the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era
CNS Workshop on Tools and Resources for Developing and Sharing Models in Computational Neuroscience,
July 22, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
Representation and Processing Mechanisms in the Early Olfactory and Visual Systems of the Fruit Fly,
Computation, Cognition and the Brain, Computational Neuroscience Workshop,
June 1, 2018, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.
NeuroInformation Processing Machines,
2016 Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop, March 7-9, 2016, Berkeley, CA.
Neurokernel: Emulating the Drosophila Brain on Multiple GPUs,
NeuroInformatics 2014, August 27, 2014, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Identifying Dendritic Processing,
2012 Workshop on Control Theory in Biology,
March 14, 2012, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Identifying Dendritic Processing,
NIPS*2010, December 7, 2010, Vancouver, CA.
Encoding Natural Scenes with a Population of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of California,
Berkeley, November 10, 2010, Berkeley, CA.
Organizer/Chair of the Columbia BCMC Workshops
BCMC*2020 Workshop, March 16-17, 2020, New York, NY.
BCMC*2019 Workshop, March 21-22, 2019, New York, NY.
BCMC*2018 Workshop, March 15-16, 2018, New York, NY.
BCMC*2017 Workshop, March 13-14, 2017, New York, NY.
BCMC*2016 Workshop, March 18-19, 2016, New York, NY.
BCMC*2015 Workshop, March 16-17, 2015, New York, NY.
Guest Editor/Co-Editor
IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications,
Special Issue on Biological Applications of Information Theory – Claude Shannon’s Centennial, Part I, Vol. 2, Issue 1, June 2016 and, Part II, Vol.2, Issue 2, December 2016.
Journal of Computational Neuroscience,
Special Issue on Methods of Information Theory,
Vol. 30, Number 1, February 2011.
Tutorials
Massively Parallel Time Encoding and Channel Identification Machines, Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2013), July 13, 2013, Paris, France.
Workshops/Sessions Chair/Co-Chair Archive
CNS*2015 Workshop, July 23, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.
CNS*2015 Workshop, July 22, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.
CNS*2014 Workshop, July 30, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.
CNS*2013 Workshop, July 17, 2013, Paris, France.
CNS*2012 Workshop, July 25, 2012, Atlanta/Decatur, GA.
CNS*2011 Workshop, July 28, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
CNS*2014 Workshop, July 30-31, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.
CNS*2013 Workshop, July 17-18, 2013, Paris, France.
CNS*2012 Workshop, July 25-26, 2012, Atlanta/Decatur. GA.
CNS*2011 Workshop, July 27-28, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
CNS*2010 Workshop, July 29-30, 2010, San Antonio, TX.
CNS*2009 Workshop, July 22-23, 2009, Berlin, Germany.
CNS*2008 Workshop, July 23-24, 2008, Portland, OR.
CNS*2007 Workshop, July 11-12, 2007, Toronto, Canada.
CNS*2006 Workshop, June 19-20, 2006, Edinburgh, U.K.
Special Session on Information Theory and Neuroscience
International Symposium on Information Theory, July 31 - August 5, 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
CUTE*2010, March 16-17, 2010, Columbia University, New York, NY.