Students

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]


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)

 

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)

Masters

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

Undergraduate (partial list)

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   Google
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

 

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