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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)
Manager, Application Services
Art Center College of Design
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
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 behaviors
Marcus Mitchell
Josee Morissette
Plasticity in mammalian somatosensory cerebellar maps
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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
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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
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
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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