This is a list of students I have supervised in a research role (graduate thesis, honours projects, full-time research assistant, etc.). Last update 2011.
[Undergraduate][Masters][PhD]
| Name | End | Discipline | Project Title | Awards | Current Position |
| Xuan Choo | in prog | SYDE | Text classification and cluster | Cheriton, OGS | UW (PhD) |
| Daniel Rassmussen | in prog | CS | Neural models and general intelligence | NSERC, OGS, NSERC CGS | UW (PhD) |
| Travis Dewolf | in prog | SYDE | Large-scale biologically plausible motor control | NSERC CGS, OGSST | UW (PhD) |
| Eric Hochstein | in prog | PHIL | Intentionality as methodology: Folk psychology to neuroscience | SSHRC | UW (PhD) |
| Trevor Bekolay | in prog | CS | A general rule for biologically realistic learning in spiking networks | NSERC, OGS | UW (PhD) |
| Bruce Bobier | 2011 | SYDE | The attentional routing circuit (ARC): Neural mechanisms of attentional control | NSERC | UW (PhD) |
| Marc Hurwitz | 2011 | PSYCH | Modeling timing deficits in hemineglect patients | NSERC | FlipSkills Consulting (Founder) |
| Bryan Tripp | 2008 | SYDE | A large scale model of basal ganglia and its role in motor dysfunction | NSERC CGS Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoc |
McGill (Postdoc) Waterloo (Faculty)
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| Oscar Tackstrom | 2007 (inc) | CS | Integrating structure and meaning: Using HRRs to improve automatic text classification and clustering | Sweden-Canada Foundation | Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) |
| Name | End | Discipline | Project Title | Awards | Current Position |
| Sushant Malhotra | in prog | SYDE | TBD | Discovery RA | UW (MSc) |
| Eric Hunsberger | in prog | SYDE | TBD | Discovery RA | UW (MSc) |
| Carter Kolbeck | in prog | SYDE | TBD | NSERC | UW (MSc) |
| Yan Wu | in prog | SYDE | Hippocampus for memory and navigation | UW (MSc) | |
| Aziz Hurzook | in prog | SYDE | Saliency maps and neural decisions (part-time) | UW (MSc) | |
| Jon Gagne | 2011 | SYDE | Observational learning for robotic motor control | NSERC, University Medal | UW (PhD) |
| Xuan Choo | 2010 | CS | Text classification and cluster | Cheriton, OGS | UW (PhD) |
| Daniel Rassmussen | 2010 | CS | Neural models and general intelligence | NSERC | UW (PhD) |
| Charlie Tang | 2010 | CS | Invariants and object recognition | NSERC | Toronto (PhD) |
| Travis Dewolf | 2009 | CS | NOCH: A neural optimal control hierarchy | NSERC CGS | UW (Masters) |
| Anatoly Zhitnik | 2008 | Phil | Explaining the mind: the embodied cognition challenge | Trade Economist | |
| Jon Fishbein | 2008 | SYDE | Integrating structure and meaning: Using HRRs to improve automatic text classification and clustering | Engineers without borders | |
| Simon Pollon | 2007 | Phil | Naturalizing mental meaning: A role for measure theory | Simon Fraser (Ph.D.) | |
| Ray Singh | 2005 | SYDE | Cleanup memory in biologically plausible neural networks | Software Consultant |
| Name | End | Discipline | Project Title | Awards | Current Position |
| Steven Leigh | 2011 | SYDE | Hemineglect model | UW (MSc) | |
| Eric Crawford | 2011 | CS | GPU integration for Nengo | UW (ugrad) | |
| Matt Gingerich | 2011 | SYDE | Conceptual structure in the SPA | UW (ugrad) | |
| Albert Mallia | 2010 | BIO | Single cell nonlinearities and population computatino | Med School | |
| David MacNeil | 2009 | MECH | Detailed learning in the oculomotor integrator | Med School | |
| Lloyd Elliott | 2008 | Math/CS | Hierarchical motor control | Full funding BCCN | BCCN (Masters) |
| Brandon Aubie | 2007 | C&O | Conceptual coherence with spiking neurons | NSERC | McMaster (Masters) |
| Abninder Litt | 2007 | CS | Understanding brains to enrich behavioral explanations of judgments and decisions AND Emotions shape decisions: A neurocomputational account | SSHRC, Jaedicke Entrance Award, William E. Taylor Fellowship (SSHRC's most outstanding doctoral fellowship candidate) | Stanford (PhD) |
| James Martens | 2007 | CS/Pure Math/C&O | Inferring statistical models in a biologically plausible network with variational Bayes | NSERC CGS | Toronto (PhD) |
| Chris Parisien | 2006 | CS | Solving the problem of negative synaptic weights in cortical models | NSERC CGS | Toronto (PhD) |
| Mike Lerman | 2006 | CS | Modeling prism adaptation in neglect | UW (Masters) | |
| Avery Miller | 2006 | CS | Beowulf cluster implementation for large SVD | NSERC | Toronto (Masters) |
| Hsiao-Chien (Chow) Lin | 2006 | Comp Eng | Optimal placement of neuron encoding functions | ||
| John Conklin | 2005 | SYDE | An attractor network model of path integration in the rat. AND Biologically plausible HRRs | NSERC | Western (Masters) |
| Dwight Kuo | 2005 | SYDE | Integrating behavioral and neural data in a model of zebrafish network interaction | NSERC | UMN (Masters); UCSD (PhD ) |
| Davin Sufer | 2004 | SYDE | Biomimetic robot lamprey | CTO, WowWee Ltd. |
Email: celiasmith@uwaterloo.ca.
Last updated Mar. 07