Wei Wu Associate Professor / Graduate Director Department of Statistics Office 106B Fax 850-644-5271 Phone E-mail Web Page http://stat.fsu.edu/~wwu
Education Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2004 M.S., Computer Science, Brown University, 2003 M.S., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2000 B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998 Research Interests Registration and alignment of functional data. Statistical modeling and analysis of neural spike trains. Statistical analysis of spectral/temporal features in birdsongs methods and real-time decoding systems for hand motion in motor cortex. The methods include state-space models, MCMC, adaptive Bayesian inferences, and informationtheoretic models. My recent work also investigates statistical representation of spectral/temporal features of bouts and notes in songbirds. Employment Summary Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, 2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2004