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Winter in Chicago. I'll take the Winter over Summer anytime.
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Moonrise on a foggy afternoon. Beautiful!
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I am into triathlon: swimming, biking, running
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Flowers in the Spring
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Botanic Garden near Chicago: Fall.
This is my "professional" social network. Keep up to date with what I'm doing with my career by checking out my LinkedIn Profile.
I am also on Facebook, though I do not post often. I use it mainly to keep in touch with family and friends, and to run the Facebook page for the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
About
I am a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I study both behavioral neuroscience and computer science. I've received my MA in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2010, and am due to receive my MS in Computer Science and PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2013.
I enjoy studying the visual system, and given that it is the most studied sensory system in neuroscience, I find it the perfect system to try and model computationally. I don't necessarily "build" models of the visual system, but I like to understand how things work in synergy. I believe that a lot of what we do is based on Baye's Theory and that we evaluate both the risk and reward based on known priors, and how we evaluate the total risk is what makes us decide our next action. I find all of this fascinating. I believe that patterns exist all around us in nature, and that if only we take inspiration from nature can we truly appreciate our own biology. I will fix this up later.
Resume/CV
Activities
Vice President for CSGSA
- Helped organize talks and events for graduate students in computer science
- Helped organize a WISE lunch for interested undergraduate students
- Represented the CS graduate student body at faculty meetings
- Helped plan weekly Friendly-Friday for CS graduate students
Organizer for Flourish! Open Source Conference - 2006/20077/2008
- Web-designer for 2008 conference
- Invited Duncan Murdoch from University of Western Ontario for his talk on the R-Project (R Statistical Programming)
- Maintained Budget and Space Reservations for 2007 conference
- Presented proposal to SAFC for student funding and secured $8800
- Speaker liaison and conference volunteer for 2006 conference
President for Linux User's Group - 2007-2008
- Introduced speakers including Massimo Di Pierro from Depaul University (gave a presentation on his framework web2py)
- Held successful workshop on how to install pendrive linux on USB sticks
- Held successful workshop on how to build a computer from miscellaneous parts
- Held "Newbies Week" series of classes for introducing students to the basics of using Linux
- Held a successful Install Fest every semester - a day long event where we install and tweak our favorite linux distributions
- Fund-raising included an auction of hand-made (by me) stuffed Tux penguins
- Responsible for creating the Tux Penguin Costume, worn around campus including at a Microsoft event, launching the birth of the annual Flourish! Conference
Web Designer/Webmaster for Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
- Installed backend modules for easy updating for the end-user
- Implemented design using CSS, Javascript, and HTML
- Maintains Facebook page
Web Designer/Webmaster for Dept of Psychology's Diversity Advancement Committee
- Designed website using CSS, Javascript, and HTML
- Maintains current information about faculty and students
Publications
Conferences
Teaching
Class list and current coming soon