{"673388":{"#nid":"673388","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CSIP Seminar | Applying more quantitative techniques to neuroscience: an in-silico demonstration","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECenter for Signals and Information Processing (CSIP)\u0026nbsp;Seminar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Friday, March 8,\u0026nbsp;2024\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECentergy Building 5126.\u0026nbsp;The associated zoom link is:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/92180566322\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/92180566322\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/97202569997\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nathanael Cruzado\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeakers\u0027 Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Applying more quantitative techniques to neuroscience: an in-silico demonstration\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMany common statistical and engineering tools and techniques such as control systems, Bayesian optimization, maximum likelihood parameter estimation, and model selection are currently underutilized in neuroscience, although recent advances have started to change that. \u0026nbsp;Using an in-silico (i.e. simulated) paradigm I demonstrate how these tools can be used in neuroscience to enable better, more quantitative approaches to setting up experiments, analyzing neural spiking data, and comparing neural models. \u0026nbsp;I demonstrate this more quantitative approach by comparing two example neural circuit models. \u0026nbsp;In my talk I will walk through this process from end-to-end: setting up the models in an in-silico experimental paradigm to obtain simulated data, applying control system techniques and Bayesian optimization to probe the models, using maximum likelihood parameter estimation on the simulated data, and finally using model selection to adjudicate between the models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nathanael Cruzado is a Post Doctoral Fellow with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Structured Information for Precision Neuroengineering Lab (SIPlab) at Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;He received his PhD in Computational Neuroscience in 2021 at Boston University advised by Marc Howard and his bachelor\u0027s degree in electrical engineering and mathematics in 2015 at Auburn University. \u0026nbsp;His work includes neural data analysis, neural modeling, cognitive modeling, and closed-loop control of neural systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nathanael Cruzado, a Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow,\u0026nbsp;will present the CSIP Seminar, \u0022Applying more quantitative techniques to neuroscience: an in-silico demonstration\u0022 on March 8, 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Dr. Nathanael Cruzado, a Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow"}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-03-07 14:54:36","changed_gmt":"2024-03-07 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