B.S., Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, 1993 M.S., Electrical Engineering: Signal Processing and Stochastic Modeling, Columbia University, 1995 Ph. D., Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco, 2000

Neurophysiologic recordings, neuron signaling, acoustic signal encoding, auditory system, hearing devices

“Spectrotemporal Receptive Fields in the Lemniscal Auditory Thalamus and Cortex,” (with L.M. Miller, H.L. Read and C.E. Schreiner), Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 516-527, 2002. “Nonlinear Spectrotemporal Sound Analysis by Neurons in the Auditory Midbrain,” (with C.E. Schreiner), Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 4114-4131, 2002. “Functional Convergence of Response Properties in the Auditory Thalamocortical System,” (with L.M. Miller, H.L. Read and C.E. Schreiner), Neuron, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 151-160, 2001. “Feature Selectivity and Interneuronal Cooperation in the Thalamocortical System,” (with L.M. Miller and C.E. Schreiner), Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 21, No. 20, pp. 8136-8144, 2001.