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Curriculum Vitae
- 1991: Graduation from the Boston Latin
School.
Recipient
of Benjamin Franklin Medal, awarded to the seven graduating seniors
with
the highest Grade
Point
Averages.
- 1991-1994: Entry into Seven Year Medical Program at Boston
University as aTrustee Scholar.
Promoted to Dean's List.
Undergraduate studies: Major in Medical Science, Minor in Physics.
- Summer 1993: Volunteer in the Boston University Student Polymer
Lab
under
Dr. Peter Garik. Research into fractal patterns of acid secretion
through the stomach lining.
- Summer 1994: Full-time work in the Neurology Research Lab
of Dr.
Gregory
Holmes at Children's
Hospital
, Boston. Epilepsy research (see Publications).
- 1994: Entry into MD-PhD
program at Boston University.
- 1994-1996: Studies at Boston
University
School of Medicine.
1996: Successful completion of USMLE Step 1 medical licensing
exam.
- 1996-2000 : Doctoral studies in the Department
of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University.
- Experience in C and Matlab programming of classical neural
network
algorithms
(Perceptrons, Backpropagation, Hopfield networks, Instance Based
Learning,
etc.) as well as development of a novel research model of motor
learning
with Dr. Stephen
Grossberg.
1998: Successful completion of PhD Qualifier Exam.
2000: Completion of Oral Defense and Dissertation.
- 2001: Summer research internship at the RIKEN
Brain Science Institute near Tokyo, Japan.
Research in the Dynamics
of Emergent Intelligence Laboratory, headed by Dr.
Yoko Yamaguchi.
Research and development of computer simulations of the role of
hippocampal
theta oscillations in
the learning and storage of spatio-temporal sequences.
- 2002: Completion of studies at Boston University School of
Medicine.
Awarding of BA, MD and PhD degrees.
- 2002+: Post-doctoral research into Neural Network
models of
human
motor control with possible applications to robotics.
Post-doctoral position in the Lab
for Behavior and Dynamic Cognition at the RIKEN
Brain Science Institute, working with Dr.
Jun Tani.
- Memberships in Professional Societies