Bioinformatics Seminar
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Venue: Na
24 June 2014
NaBerkeley
Bin YuUniversity of California
Depts of Stats and EECS;Movie Reconstruction from Brain Signals: "Mind-Reading" - ROOM CHANGED TO Davis Auditorium;Least Squares ; a time-tested method for fitting a linear model to data ; attained prominence as far back as 1801 when it was used by Johan Carl Friedrich Gauss to fit astronomical data and predict the trajectory of the newly-discovered asteroid Ceres. Attempts have recently been made to modify the Least Squares method and answer one of the important questions in computational neuroscience: Can the vast quantities of high-dimensional neuroscience data available today be used to decode brain activities?
In a thrilling breakthrough at the intersection of neuroscience and statistics ; penalized Least Squares methods have been used to construct a "mind-reading" algorithm that reconstructs movies from fMRI brain signals. The story of this algorithm is a fascinating tale of the interdisciplinary research that led to the development of the system which was selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2011.
Bio
Bin Yu is Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. She was Chair of Department of Statistics from 2009 to 2012. She has published over 80 scientific papers in premier journals in statistics ; machine learning ; information theory ; signal processing ; remote sensing ; neuroscience ; networks ; and genomics. She is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences ; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006. She is President of IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics).;http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~binyu/Site/Welcome.html;;