"What if it was 20 plus or minus 2?"

Curriculum Vitae

A PDF version of my vitae is available here.

Current Position

Stanford
I've been a junior fellow at the MBC/Mind, Brain and Computation, an interdiscipinary research center at Stanford University, for a couple of years now.
ToDai
Most of my time is spent as a fellow at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, where physicists and engineers make math think.

Education

CMU
I received my Ph.D. in the Department at Psychology of Carnegie Mellon University. At CMU, I was also been active in the Computer Science Department (where my graduate advisor is located) and the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh.
ToDai
Although I am not an official student of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, I had a fun time fulfilling all the requirements for a Master of Science in Neuroscience. If fact my actual Masters Thesis (below) might have been better suited to a neuroscience department.
CMU
I earned a Master of Science in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in the summer of 2003. The title of my thesis was Efficient coding of time-relative structure in audition. This was work done in collaboration with my advisor Michael Lewicki.
UniKa
In 2001 I received my Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Cognitive Science Department in UC San Diego. My honors thesis was titled A Snow-based facial feature detector . This work was done with Javier Movellan at the Machine Perception Lab.

Work Experience

abalone

1997-99: General Manager, Pacific Mariculture Inc., Santa Cruz , CA
Wrangling farm-raised abalone for live sale to the Japanese sushi market. They wriggle when they go down.

film

1994-96: General Partner, HardDrive Productions, San Diego , CA
I cofounded this start-up way back when the idea of making films using nonlinear, digital editing was still revolutionary.

Other

Fellowships & Awards

NSF
  • 2005: Inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
  • 2004-2005: Awarded an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
  • 2000: Graduated with Honors, Cognitive Science Dept., UCSD
  • 1989: National Merit Scholar Honorable Mention

Memberships

None