James E Fitzgerald, M.S.
- Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.
Department of Physics
Bio-X and Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
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Degrees:
M.S., Physics, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)B.A., Physics, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
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Past Advisors:
Tobin R. Sosnick (as Undergraduate Student)Karl F. Freed (as Undergraduate Student)
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Research:
Theoretical biophysics and neuroscience.
I currently study theoretical neuroscience. I am broadly interested in how the brain computes and mostly focus on motion detection in flies, hippocampal dependent learning in mice, and theoretical problems in optical imaging. These subjects continually promote a growing interest in the structural basis of neural computation. As an undergraduate I studied protein structure and dynamics.
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Other Experience:
2009 Methods in Computational Neuroscience, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA
2004 Research Experience for Undergraduates, Grid Computing and Bioinformatics, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL
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Honors:
2011-present Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation: NSF IGERT Fellow
2008-2011 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
2007 Hertz Finalist
2006-2007 Beckman Scholars Program
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James Fitzgerald's Publications (5)
One Figure
Structure of the optimal two-point and three-point correlators to estimate random dot motion. Three-point correlators exploit asymmetries in the stimulus distribution to estimate motion.
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