University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Cognitive Science BA 2003
Boston University, Boston, MA Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD expected 2008
Appointments
Boston University (2004- )
Research Assistant at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS)
COO, Neurala LLC (2006-)
Publications
Gorchetchnikov, A., Ames, H.M., Versace, M., and Santini, F. (2007). Graphic Processor Based Accelerator System and Method. U.S. Utility Patent filed on September 24, 2007 (Application Number 11860254).
Gorchetchnikov, A., Ames, H.M., Versace, M., and Santini, F. (2006). Hardware, system, and methods for acceleration of massively parallel computations. U.S. Provisional Patent filed on September 25, 2006 (Application Number 60/826,892).
Versace, M, Ames, A., Leveille, J., Fortenberry, B., Mhatre, H., and Gorchetchnikov, A. (2007)KInNeSS: A modular framework for computational neuroscience. CAS/CNS-TR-07-007. Submitted to Neuroinformatics.
Activities
- Founder/Owner and Chief Operations Officer, Neurala LLC, Boston, MA. Neurala is a technology startup that focuses on developing advanced software applications for Artificial Intelligence computing. Responsibilities and achievements include: co-authored business plan and US Utility patent, successfully led the technical aspect of the company’s first consulting project, worked on developing and consolidating company’s partnerships.
- President of the NSF sponsored Science of Learning Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST) student and post-doc organization. Responsibilities include organizing student and postdoc ran events, sitting on the CELEST Board of Directors, and facilitating communication between students and faculty.
- Leadership role in the NSF sponsored across center student meeting to be held in February 2008. Along with 5 other students and postdocs from two other NSF sponsored Science of Learning centers, we successfully submitted a proposal to fund this event. Responsibilities include coordinating travel and logistics, creating symposia sessions, overseeing peer review process, and coordinating general event details.
- Leadership role in organizing committee of the first CELEST/CNS Career Day event at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University (October 24, 2007) which brought together about 50 students from selected BU Departments and five representatives from local hi-tech companies. Responsibilities involve planning and organizing the event and coordinate the invitations for attendees and speakers.
- Chairman of the organizing committee of the first postdoc and student-organized workshop “Computing with Neural Interfaces” to take place at the Twelfth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS May 2008). Invited leading researchers in the field of neural prosthetics and coordinated the format and organization of the event.
- Hi-Tech software development project. Currently co-leading a research team of 7 students and postdocs in developing an innovative software platform for advanced neural modeling. The software, the KDE Integrated NeuroSimulation Software (KinNeSS, www.kinness.org), has become the primary tool in many departmental research projects in design and testing of complex neural systems.
Collaborations & Other Affiliations
Collaborators and Co-Editors
Bret Fortenberry (Boston University)
Anatoli Gorchetchnikov (Boston University)
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Frank Guenther (Boston University)
Jasmin Leveille (Boston University)
Edwin Maas (Boston University)
Himanshu Mhatre (Boston University)
Fabrizio Santini (Boston University)
Massimiliano Versace (Boston University)
Graduate Advisor
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)