Christopher Quinn

Program Years:

2010–2014

University:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Field of Study:

Communications

Advisor:

Negar Kiyavash

Degree(s):

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
B.S. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2008

Practicum Experience(s)

Sandia National Laboratories, California (2012)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Ali

Pinar

Practicum Title:

Efficiently Inferring Optimal and Near-Optimal Approximations for Large Stochastic Dynamical Systems

Current Status

Status:

Assistant Professor

Research Area:

Information theory, stochastic networks, causal inference

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Identifying and Approximation of the Structure of Networks of Stochastic Processes (2014)

Finding Influences in a Network (2013)

Identifying the Network Structure of Stochastic Dynamical Systems (2012)

Using information theory to analyze statistically causal influences in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons (2011)

Using information theory to analyze statistically causal influences in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons (2010)