ABOUT HEATHER AMES

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University.  I received my bachelors degree in Cognitive Science with an emphasis in Neuroscience at the University of California at Berkeley in 2003.  My current academic reserach interests focus on speech modeling.  I have recently developed a speaker normalization model with my PhD advisor, Prof. Steve Grossberg and other research interests in this field include auditory cortical development and mapping and cortical processing mpairments associated with Apraxia of Speech. [Read more]

NEURALA

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Recently, me, Massimiliano Versace and Anatoli Gorchetchnikov have founded Neurala LLC, a startup focused in the development of a technology platform that enables programmers to write brain-based algorithms that exploit emerging, low-cost parallel hardware components. In collaboration with The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems and the Department Geography and Environment at Boston University, we are currently focusing on an application for real-time detection of signature characteristic of wildfire from satellite images. The goal is to provide a decision tool that can be used to forecast fire occurrence, direction, and allow a quick intervention. 

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