Wei Wu

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4330

Email: wwu AT stat DOT fsu DOT edu
Phone: (850)644-9855
Office: 106B OSB


Teaching         STA 4853/5856

Research Interests

• Statistical modeling and decoding of population neuronal activity in motor cortex
• State-space models, non-stationarity in time series, adaptive Bayesian inference methods
• Information-theoretic study of temporal relationships in simultaneously recorded spikes and LFPs.
• Statistical analysis of spectral/temporal features of birdsong bouts and notes.
  
  

Education

• Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence RI, 2004
            Dissertation: Statistical models of neural coding in motor cortex
            Advisors: David Mumford, Michael J. Black
  
  
• M.Sc. Computer Science, Brown University, Providence RI, 2003
  
  
• M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence RI, 2000
  
  
• B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei China, 1998
  
  

Employment

• Assistant Professor: Florida State University, Department of Statistics, 08/06 -- Present
  
  
• Postdoctoral Scholar: University of Chicago, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Hatsopoulos Lab, 08/04 -- 07/06
  
  
• Postdoctoral Research Associate: Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 06/04 -- 07/04
  
  

Recent Publications

• Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Real-time decoding of non-stationary neural activity in motor cortex", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 213-222, 2008.
  
  
• Wu, W., Thompson, J. A., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "A statistical method for quantifying songbird phonology and syntax", Journal of Neuroscience Methods , vol. 174, pp. 147-154. 2008.
  
  
• Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Target-included model and hybrid decoding of stereotyped hand movement in the motor cortex", The 2nd IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2008.
  
  
• Thompson, J., Wu, W., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "Auditory-dependent vocal recovery in adult male zebra finches is facilitated by lesion of a forebrain pathway that includes the basal ganglia", Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 45, pp. 12308-12320, 2007.
  
  
• Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Coordinate system representations of movement direction in the premotor cortex", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 176, no. 4, pp. 652-657, 2007.
  
  
• Chi, Z., Wu, W., Haga, Z., Hatsopoulos, N., and Margoliash D., "Template-based spike pattern identification with linear convolution and dynamic time warping", Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 97, pp. 1221-1235, 2007.
  
  
• Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Evidence against a single coordinate system representation in the motor cortex", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 175, no. 2, pp. 197-210, 2006.
  
  
• Wu, W., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Donoghue, J. P., and Black, M. J., "Bayesian population decoding of motor cortical activity using a Kalman filter", Neural Computation, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 80-118, 2006.