My projects for the club

Currently I work with Jared Lalmansingh on a project to greatly simply grading. This involves mostly classic computer vision algorithms and web development. In the near future we will be applying deep learning to solve some problems with the computer vision and to do somethings with natural language processing that no one has before. I am also excited to start a project with Xia Ji, and Jonathon Monroe to create new quantum algorithms to perform some common routines in neuroscience and network analysis. I designed the logo and the website you see now, with some help from Ji who did the wonderful interactive simulations you see. I’m also the club mascot.

My research

Soon I hope to have some neat videos and explainers of some of the details of my research posted here!

I’ve spent most of time on three projects exploring the practical implications of self-organized criticality in the brain. One such project is to characterize the distribution of naturally occuring overlapping communities of neurons and find out whether such clusters are relevant for population coding. The other two projects are closely related to each other and invlove characterizing the extent to which we can leverage the scale-freeness inherent to phase transitions for the purpose of accessing population level information by recording voltage or current fluctuations accross the membrane at the soma of just one single neuron.