| SCIENCE AND COMPUTING |
TEACHING | OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE |
| PUBLICATIONS | INVITED LECTURES |
| SKILLS | · Applications programming (C/C++ and others) | |
| · 6809 and 80286 assembly languages | ||
| · IRIX and Solaris system administration (Sun SA-380 certification) | ||
| · Apache and Netscape server administration and HTML coding | ||
| · Biomedical signal processing and image processing | ||
| · Statistical programming and data modelling | ||
| · Teacher of high school, college, and professional seminars | ||
| · Certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | ||
| EXPERIENCE | Cornell University Department of Human Development | August 2006 - present |
| Teaching and research on the neurobiology of autism. | ||
| University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre | July 2002 - August 2006 | |
| Conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of perceptual and executive systems in autism. Devised and implement advanced nonparametric statistical analyses for functional magnetic resonance image time series. | ||
| McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center, Belmont, Massachusetts |
September 1998 - June 2002 | |
| Conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of attention in autism. Designed and implemented software for automated tissue segmentation in magnetic resonance images and for optimised permutation testing of image time series. Developed PC software and hardware interfaces for real-time stimulus control and data acquisition. | ||
| Tuneprint, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts |
June 2001 - January 2002 | |
| Constructed computational models of the human auditory system for use in audio ‘fingerprinting’ software. | ||
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University Center for Neural Science |
February 1997 - July 1998 | |
| Developed and maintained software for visual stimulus presentation, real-time data acquisition, and biological signal processing. | ||
| Interactive Futures, Inc., New York | October 1996 - February 1997 | |
| Installed, maintained, and troubleshot Sun and SGI servers for several Silicon Alley clients, and instructed client personnel in systems administration tasks | ||
| Autism and Brain Development Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital, San Diego |
June 1992 - April 1996 | |
| Developed software for automated quantification and interactive visualisation of nuclear magnetic resonance images and electroencephalographic signals. Set up and administered a network of IRIX, Solaris, Windows, and MacOS systems. | ||
| Computing Centre, Imperial College, London | fall 1990 | |
| Operator of several batch computing systems. | ||
| Synthesizer Generator Research Project, Computer Science Department, Cornell University |
January 1987 - June 1989 | |
| Implemented static semantic rules for an incremental compiler for the C language. Devised and implemented algorithms for evaluating dependencies within attribute grammars. | ||
| Robotics Research Project, Computer Science Department, Cornell University | September - December 1986 | |
| Developed user interfaces for solid modelling tools on Symbolics LISP machines. | ||
| National Biomedical Simulation Resource, Duke University |
June - August 1986 | |
| Maintained data communications hardware and UNIX system software. | ||
| Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C. |
January - June 1986 | |
| Developed and optimised a transition network parser implemented in LISP as part of a natural language understanding effort. | ||
| National Political Resources, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia |
October 1984 - February 1985 | |
| Wrote job-control scripts and C programs in a VAX/VMS environment to interact with telephone operators. | ||
| EDUCATION | Highlights: BA in English and computer science, MFA in fiction writing. Full details here. | |
| MEMBERSHIPS | Scientific Review Council, Cure Autism Now foundation | September 2000 - December 2006 |
| MIT Student Information Processing Board | February 1999 - present | |
| International Society for Autism Research | 2004 - present | |