About meUeli Rutishauser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Office: Thalians E145 (Cedars-Sinai), Broad 120B (Caltech). Offical profile I'm currently transitioning all my research activities to my new home as a faculty member at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where I'm part of the Department of Neurosurgery with a joint appointment in Neurology. Also, I'm a visiting faculty in the Division of Biology of the California Institute of Technology and I advise students at both institutions. Stay tuned for updates and the homepage of my new lab. Education I received my Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, USA in 2008 and my B.S. in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland. I did my undergraduate thesis at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich on unsupervised learning. Experience I was a junior group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in the department of Gilles Laurent, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and did my graduate training in the Computation & Neural Systems program at Caltech. Before graduate school, I worked as a software engineering consultant in the finance and retail industry. Interests My principal interests are the mechanisms by which animals and machines learn. In particular I'm interested in the neural mechanisms of rapid single-trial learning and novelty detection. I'm broadly interested and working on a variety of experimental, computational and theoretical approaches in neuroscience. Keywords of interests: Learning & Memory, synaptic plasticity, computational and biological vision, visual attention, algorithms, object recognition, unsupervised learning, human neurophysiology, extracellular recordings, epilepsy and seizure propagation, spike sorting, cortical algorithms, oscillations, spike timing. Collaborators include Adam Mamelak (Cedars-Sinai), Ralph Adolphs (Caltech), Erin Schuman (Caltech/MPI), , Christof Koch (Caltech), Rodney Douglas (ETHZ), Wolfgang Einhaeuser (Marburg) and Jean-Jacques Slotine (MIT). I'm a co-organizer for the annual Human Single Unit Meeting conference, the first instance of which was in November 2011 in New York, hosted by NYU. Previous academic affiliations Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Caltech, Computation&Neural System Program Caltech, Laboratory of Synaptic plasticity of Erin Schuman, where I did my PhD and postdoc. Caltech, Computational Vision Institute of Neuroinformatics, University/ETH Zurich (I remain as a frequent visitor and Guest member). University of applied sciences rapperswil, switzerland My Erdoes number is 3 (me -> Harel -> McEliece -> Erdoes). |