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Alexander Williams

Headshot of Alexander Williams
Program Years:
2014–2019
University:
Stanford University
Field of Study:
Theoretical Neuroscience
Advisor:
Surya Ganguli
Degree(s):
A.B. Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, 2012
PhD Neuroscience, Stanford University, 2018

Practicum Experience(s)

Sandia National Laboratories, California (2016)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Tamara
Kolda
Practicum Title:
Dimensionality Reduction of Neural Data by Canonical Polyadic Tensor Decomposition

Current Status

Status:
Asst Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Research Area:
Theoretical Neuroscience
Personal URL:
https://neurostatslab.org/

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Presentation
: Examining Large-Scale Neural Data With Single-Trial Resolution (
2019
)
Fellow Poster
: Unsupervised Discovery of Temporal Sequences in Neural Data (
2018
)
Fellow Poster
: Time-warped Principal Components Analysis of Neural Data (
2017
)
Fellow Poster
: Sparse, Smooth and Demixed Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Neural Time Series Datasets (
2016
)
Fellow Poster
: A Clustering Algorithm to Identify Latent Cell Types From DNA Methylation Patterns (
2015
)