Academics
- 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.
Recent/Upcoming Talks
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Time Encoding Machines and Elements of Spike Processing
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 29, 2009, Urbana, IL.
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Population Encoding with Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, September 18, 2009, New York, NY.
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Methods of Signal Processing/Communications in Computational Neuroscience
Conference Celebrating the Retirement of Stuart C. Schwartz, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, May 8, 2009, Princeton, NJ.
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The Geometry of Time Encoding Machines and Elements of Spike Processing
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, May 5, 2009, Haifa, Israel.
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Invariant Representations of Visual Streams in the Spike Domain
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, January 26, 2009, Hanover, NH.
Call for Papers
Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Special issue on Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience Research
Alexander G. Dimitrov , Aurel A. Lazar and Jonathan D. Victor,
(editors). Submission deadline: December 15, 2009.
Methods originally developed in Information Theory have found wide applicability in computational neuroscience. Beyond these original methods, novel tools and approaches have been developed that are driven by problems arising in neuroscience. A number of researchers in computational/systems neuroscience and in information/communication theory are investigating problems of information representation and processing.
The goal of the special issue of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience is to showcase the latest techniques, approaches and results in this area. The subject of the papers must fit the Aims & Scope of the journal, and must in particular not be purely methodological but also illustrate results that advance our understanding of brain function in a broad sense. The papers must contain new material, but we encourage the authors to also include review material to help the reader fully understand the context of the study. Papers that include experimental work are especially encouraged.
Submission is open to all as long as it fits the above criteria. The papers will go through the standard review process, with the same criteria as for normal articles submitted to the journal. They will be further reviewed for relevance to the special issue by the guest editors listed above. At submission, please indicate in comments that you wish to be considered for this issue.
Workshop Chair/Co-Chair
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Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
CNS*2009 Workshop, July 22-23, 2009, Berlin, Germany.
CNS*2008 Workshop, July 23-24, 2008, Portland, Oregon.
CNS*2007 Workshop, July 11-12, 2007, Toronto, Canada.
CNS*2006 Workshop, June 19-20, 2006, Edinburgh, U.K.