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Santa Clara, California, Us

Manhattan Beach, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Malibu, California, Us

Member of Center for Neural and Emergent Systems, Information and System Sciences Laboratory • Work on IARPA’s KRNS project• Develop optimization techniques for signal processing of fMRI data• Use Formal Concept Analysis (rooted in lattice theory) to map fMRI data to semantic structures to understand the hierarchical structure of the human brain• Work on DARPA’s SyNAPSE project• Contribute to the development of the large scale neural network simulator called HRLSim• Look for a minimal set of biological characteristics that achieve desired neural network behaviors• Develop novel neural network models that exemplify self-organization• Develop reinforcement learning algorithms to train networks to perform desired tasks• Develop analytical techniques and metrics to quantify in concrete terms the network learning dynamics• Contribute to the open source analytics package HRLAnalysis for analyzing large spiking networks• HRL Outstanding Team Award, 2010

Claremont, Ca, Us

Taught single variable calculus· Developed class curriculum including daily lectures, homework assignments and exams

Claremont, Ca, Us

Taught single variable calculus· Developed class curriculum including daily lectures, homework assignments and exams

Model and analyze satellite software systems to predict failure rates, average system availability and overallreadiness of the software package· Find root causes of problems based on system models· Advise program offices of software analysis and recommend software for deployment or give an estimate foramount of testing necessary to bring software to maturity· Spot Award for excellence in work on SBIRS during the summer of 2006· Spot Award for excellence in work on AEHF during the summer of 2007

Arlington, Va, Us

Developed methods to check for errors in telemetry tables· Wrote software that uses the methods I developed to automatically check for errors in the telemetry tables,repair the errors, and write error analysis reports· Supported the Systems Engineering Department through various data and error analysis tasks

Investigated several aspects of additive number theory· Collaborated with a team of undergraduate mathematics students· Employed creative problem solving to prove an original mathematical theorem· Presented weekly progress reports to other students and professors· Wrote a mathematical paper describing findings (to be published)

Masters, Mathematics

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics; Computational Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science, Physics; Mathematics