Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation: Statistical models of neural coding in motor cortex (pdf) Advisors: David Mumford, Michael J. Black   Neural Coding (2006 - Present) Wu, W., Mast, T., Ziembko, C., Breza, J., and Contreras, R. J., "Statistical analysis and decoding of neural activity in the rodent geniculate ganglion using a metric-based inference system", PLoS ONE, vol. 8, e65439, 2013. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Estimating summary statistics in the spike-train space", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 34, pp. 391-410, 2013. (pdf) Lawhern, V., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Wu, W., "Coupling time decoding and trajectory decoding using a target-included model in the motor cortex", Neurocomputing, vol. 82, pp. 117-126, 2012. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Estimation of a mean template from spike-train data", 34th Annual Conference of IEEE EMBS, 2012. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "An information-geometric framework for statistical inferences in the neural spike train space", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 31, pp. 725-748, 2011. (pdf) (software) Lawhern, V., Nikonov, A. A., Wu, W., and Contreras, R. J., "Spike rate and spike timing contributions to coding taste quality information in rat periphery", Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, vol. 5, art. 18, pp. 1-14, 2011. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Towards statistical summaries of spike train data", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 195, pp. 107-110, 2011. (pdf) Lawhern, V., Wu, W., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Paninski, L., "Population decoding of motor cortical activity using a genralized linear model with hidden states", Journal of Neuroscience Methods , vol. 189, pp. 267-280, 2010. (pdf) Paninski, L., Ahmadian, Y., Ferreira, D., Koyama, S., Rahnama Rad, K., Vidne, M., Vogelstein, J., and Wu, W., "A new look at state-space models for neural data", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 29, pp. 107-126, 2010. (pdf) Wu, W., Kulkarni, J. E., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Paninski, L., "Neural decoding of hand motion using a linear state-space model with hidden states", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 17, pp. 370-378, 2009. (pdf) 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, pp. 213-222, 2008. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Target-included model and hybrid decoding of stereotyped hand movement in the motor cortex", The second IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale, AZ, October 19-22, 2008. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Coordinate system representations of movement direction in the premotor cortex", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 176, pp. 652-657, 2007. (pdf) Chi, Z., Wu W., Haga Z., Hatsopoulos, N., and Margoliash D., "Identifying neuronal activity pattern: patching local temporal information", Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 97, pp. 1221-1235, 2007. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Evidence against a single coordinate system representation in the motor cortex ", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 175, pp. 197-210, 2006. (pdf) 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, pp. 80-118, 2006. (pdf)   Functional Data Analysis Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A., "Analysis of signals under compositional noise with appli- cations to SONAR data", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2103, In Press. Kurtek, S., Wu, W., and G. Christensen, and Srivastava, A., "Segmentation, alignment and statis- tical analysis of biosignals with application to disease classification", Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1270-1288, 2013. (pdf) Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A. "Generative models for functional data using phase and amplitude separation", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , vol. 61, pp. 50-66, 2013. (pdf) Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A. "Analysis of signals under compositional noise with applications to SONAR data", Oceans '12 MTS/IEEE Conference , Hampton Roads, VA, 2012. (pdf) Kurtek, S., Srivastava, A., and Wu, W. "Signal estimation under random time-warpings and nonlinear signal alignment", Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2011. (pdf)   Birdsong Production Daou, A., Johnson, F., Wu, W., and Bertram, R., "A computational tool for automated large-scale analysis and measurement of bird-song syntax", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 210, no. 2, pp. 147-160, 2012. (pdf) Thompson, J. A., Basista, M., Wu, W., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "Dual pre-motor contribution to songbird syllable variation", Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 322-330, 2011. (pdf) 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, no. 1, pp. 147-154, 2008. (pdf) (software) Thompson, J. A., 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. (pdf)