Curriculum Vitae
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January, 2009
Jonathan W. Pillow
The University of Texas at Austin
http://pillowlab.cps.utexas.edu/~pillow/

Education
New York University, Center for Neural Science (1998-2005), Ph.D., Jan 2005
Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.  (U.S. Fulbright Scholar, 1997-1998)
University of Arizona, (1993-1997) B.A. with honors, summa cum laude, math and philosophy

Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UT Austin (Jan 2009-present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Society and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL (Oct 2005-2009).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute & NYU. Advisor: Eero Simoncelli. (Jan-Oct 2005).
Ph.D. Student & Research Assistant, Dr. Eero Simoncelli. (2001-05). Thesis: "Neural coding and the statistical modeling of neuronal responses." Committee: E. Simoncelli, D. Tranchina., A. Movshon, L. Abbott., C. Peskin.
Research Assistant, Dr. Rich Zemel: population coding and models of orientation tuning in primary visual cortex, (1996-97, summer 1998).

Honors and Awards
  • Royal Society USA/Canada Research Fellowship (2005-07)
  • Dean's Dissertation Fellowship Award (2003-2004)
  • Best Student Paper, NIPS 2003
  • Dean's Dissertation Fellowship Award (2003-2004)
  • NYU Graduate Forum member (2001-2002)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1997-2000)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1997,
  • declined)
  • NCAA Graduate Fellowship  (1997)
  • U.S. Fulbright Fellowship (1997-1998)
  • Freeman Medal (1997, outstanding U. Arizona graduate)
  • Sapphire Award (1997, most outstanding U. Arizona student-athlete)
  • Outstanding Senior, Department of Mathematics (1997)
  • Flinn Foundation Scholar (1993-97)
  • National Science Scholar (1993)
  • Presidential Scholar (1993)

Teaching

  • Guest Lecturer, Theoretical Neuroscience (Gatsby graduate course: 2 lectures), (Nov 2005).
  • Guest Lecturer, Computational Modeling of Neuronal Systems (NYU grad course), (Oct 2005).
  • Guest Lecturer, Mathematical Tools for Neuroscientists. (NYU grad course), (Nov 2004).
  • Lecturer, Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course. Okinawa, Japan. (Nov 2004). "Estimating models of neural response from spike trains."
  • Lecturer, Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Lake Tahoe, CA, (Jul 2003). "Characterization of neural responses with stochastic stimuli."
  • Teaching Assistant, Computational Neuroscience: Vision. (Cold Spring Harbor Summer Course,grad and postdoc) (Jul 2002).
  • Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Tools for Neuroscientists. (NYU grad course) (Fall 2000).
  • Teaching Assistant, Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience. (NYU undergrad). (Spring 2000).

Other Activities

  • Workshop Organizer, "The role of natural images in guiding our understanding of visual function." Cosyne 2006. (co-organized with Nicole Rust and Eero Simoncelli).
  • Workshop Organizer, "New Approaches to Characterizing Neural Responses." Cosyne 2005. (co-organized with Nicole Rust).
  • NYU Neuro/Philosophy Discussion Group, organizer (2003-2005).
  • CNS Student-Postdoc Forum (weekly student journal club), organizer (2000-2002).
  • NYU Graduate Forum member (2001-2003).
  • CSHL summer course participant: Computational Neuroscience: Vision (June 2000).
  • Journal reviewer: J. Comp. Neurosci., J. Neurophys, J. Neurosci, J. of Vision, Neural Computation.
  • Conference submission reviewer: Computational Neuroscience (CNS), (2005-06); Neural Information Processing Society (NIPS),(2002-2005).