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Yu Hu

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington


Email:                huyu (at) uw.edu
Address:            Guggenheim Hall #407, Box 352420
                          Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Curriculum vitae

I am a PhD student in applied mathematics studying computational neuroscience. I am interested in the impact of connectivity architectures on correlations at the network level. My current project is aiming at relating pairwise correlation of spike times to simple local statistics of connections known as motifs (e.g. diverging--- two cells both receiving projections from another cell and chain---three cells linked by two consecutive projections etc.). Eventually, I hope to clarify the role of correlations in basic aspects of neural coding and computation, as a way of bridging connectivity patterns and neural function.

Research

Publications

Hu, Y., Trousdale, J., Josić, K., & Shea-Brown, E. (2012). Motif Statistics and Spike Correlations in Neuronal Networks. J. Stat. Mech. P03012. 2013.

Trousdale, J., Hu, Y., Shea-Brown, E., & Josić, K. (2012). Impact of Network Structure and Cellular Response on Spike Time Correlations. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(3), e1002408. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002408.t001


Conferences
(links to .pdf of posters)
May 20 - May 22, contributed talk, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical System 2013, Snowbird, UT
Mar 25- Mar 28, oral presentation, IMACS 2013: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena, Athens, GA
Feb 21 - Mar 3, poster presentation, Cosyne 2013, Salt Lake City, UT


Teaching

I have been teaching assistant for AMATH 383 Introduction to Continuous Mathematical Modeling in Fall 2009, 2011, AMATH 353 Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Spring 2011, and calculus sequences MATH 124 Winter 2011, MATH 125 Winter 2009.



Links

Eric Shea-Brown's neural dynamics group
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington