The overall mission of the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind is to better understand the brain by applying quantitative methods to uncover deep and meaningful structure in large neural datasets.
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Several postdoc positions are available.
Elias Issa
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience.
Prof. Issa has been named as the current Grossman-Kavli faculty scholar.
John Cunningham
Associate Professor, Statistics.
Prof. Cunningham has joined us as the newest faculty member of the Grossman Center.
Co-directors
Mark Churchland
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience; member, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, David Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior Research.
Liam Paninski
Professor, Statistics and Neuroscience; member, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; member, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science.
Center Postdocs
Alumni
Cora Ames (LifeCanvas)
Evan Archer (Sony AI)
Lars Buesing (Google DeepMind)
David Carlson (Duke)
Shizhe Chen (UC Davis)
Xinyi Deng (Beijing University of Technology)
Dean Freestone (University of Melbourne)
Johannes Friedrich (Simons Flatiron Institute)
Josh Glaser (Northwestern)
Logan Grosenick (Cornell)
Daniel Hernandez (Google)
Antonio Lara (Kernel)
Scott Linderman (Stanford)
Jackson Loper (U. Michigan)
Tim Machado (U Penn)
Gonzalo Mena (CMU)
Josh Merel (Google DeepMind)
Ari Pakman (Ben-Gurion University)
Eftychios Pnevmatikakis (Meta)
Shreya Saxena (U of Florida)
Daniel Soudry (Technion)
Uygar Sumbul (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
Xuexin Wei (UT Austin)
Anqi Wu (Georgia Tech)
Pengcheng Zhou (Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies)
Courses
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data
Selected Publications
Abe T, Kinsella I, Saxena S, Paninski L, Cunningham J (2020). Neuroscience Cloud Analysis As a Service: an open-source platform for scalable, reproducible data analysis. Neuron.
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Saxena, S and Cunningham, J (2019). Towards the neural population doctrine. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
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Russo AA, Bittner SR, Perkins SM, Seely JS, London BM, Lara AH, Miri A, Marshall NJ, Kohn A, Jessell TM, Abbott LF, Cunningham JP, Churchland MM (2018). Motor cortex embeds muscle-like commands in an untangled population response. Neuron.
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Paninski L and Cunningham J (2018). Neural data science: accelerating the experiment-analysis-theory cycle in large-scale neuroscience. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
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Elsayed GF and Cunningham JP (2017). Structure in neural population recordings: an expected byproduct of simpler phenomena? Nature Neuroscience.
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International Brain Lab (2017). An international laboratory for systems and computational neuroscience. Neuron.
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Affiliations
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (MBBI)
Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering
The Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind is made possible through the generosity of the Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust.