Ian Stevenson

Graduate Student (Neuroscience)
B.A. Physics, Rice University, 2006

Phone: [phone]
Office Rm#: Onterie 931

Email: i-stevenson at northwestern dot edu
Web: GoogScholar // neurotree // scholarpedia // citeulike // CV

Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience, Neural Coding, Machine Learning, Information Theory, Bayesian Inference, Structure Learning, Statistics of Natural Scenes/Movements, Motor Control

Publications

On the similarity of functional connectivity between neurons estimated across timescales (in press)

Stevenson IH and Körding KP.
PLoS ONE. (PDF)

Hierarchical Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for tuning curve analysis (2010)

Cronin B*, Stevenson IH*, Sur M, and Körding KP. (* contributed equally)
Journal of Neurophysiology 103: 591-602. (Abstract, PDF, Code)

Bayesian integration and non-linear feedback control in a full-body motor task (2009)

Stevenson IH, Fernandes HL, Vilares I, Wei K, and Körding KP.
PLoS Computational Biology 5(12): e1000629. (Abstract, PDF)

Structural inference affects depth perception in the context of potential occlusion (2009)

Stevenson IH and Körding KP.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. 1777—1784. (PDF)

Bayesian inference of functional connectivity and network structure from spikes (2009)

Stevenson IH, Rebesco JM, Hatsopoulos NG, Haga Z, Miller LE, and Körding KP.
IEEE TNSRE (Special Issue on Brain Connectivity). 17, 3: 203-213. (Abstract, PDF, Code)

Inferring functional connections between neurons (2008)

Stevenson IH, Rebesco JM, Miller LE, and Körding KP.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 18: 582-588. (Abstract, PDF)

Turbulent mixing of two-layer stratified fluid (2007)

Whitehead JA and Stevenson I.
Physics of Fluids, 19, 125104. (Abstract, PDF)

Mechanical elasticity of vapour-liquid-solid grown GaN nanowires (2007)

Chen Y, Stevenson I, Pouy R, Wang L, McIlroy DN, Pounds T, Norton MG, and Aston DE.
Nanotechnology, 18, 135708. (Abstract, PDF)

Principles and mechanisms of gas sensing by GaN nanowires functionalized with gold nanoparticles (2006)

Dobrokhotov V, McIlroy DN, Norton MG, Abuzir A, Yeh WJ, Stevenson I, Pouy R, Bochenek J, Cartwright M, Wang L, Dawson J, Beaux M, and Berven C.
Journal of Applied Physics, 99, 104302. (Abstract, PDF)

Conference Papers and Abstracts

ABS Inter-rater reliability for classification of spasms in muscles paralyzed by spinal cord injury (2009)

Thomas CK, Ferrell S, Dididze M, Stevenson IH, Kording KP. Program 542.15/S12. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience.

ABS Scaling effects in estimating functional connectivity (2009)

Stevenson IH, Kording KP. Program 895.17/HH33. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience. (PDF)

ABS Bayesian integration and non-linear feedback control in a full-body motor task (2009)

Stevenson IH, Fernandes H, Vilares I, Wei K, and Körding KP. Poster. Chicago, IL: Advances in Computational Motor Control (PDF)

ABS Automatic detection and classification of muscle spasms in patients with spinal cord injury (2009)

Stevenson IH, Thomas CK, and Kording KP. Poster. Waikoloa, HI: Neural Control of Movement (NCM). (PDF)

ABS Explaining postural sway by causal inference (2009)

Stevenson IH, Wei K, and Kording KP. Poster. Waikoloa, HI: Neural Control of Movement (NCM). (PDF)

ABS In vivo spike-triggered stimulation alters neural network connectivity (2009)

Rebesco JM, Stevenson IH, Körding KP, Solla SA, and Miller LE. Poster. Waikoloa, HI: Neural Control of Movement (NCM).

ABS An analysis of functional connectivity across time-scales (2009)

Stevenson IH and Kording KP. Poster II-23. Salt Lake City, UT: COSYNE. (PDF)

ABS In vivo changes in functional connectivity induced through spike-timing dependent plasticity (2008)

Rebesco JM, Stevenson IH, Solla SA, Kording KP, Miller LE. Program No 778.23/QQ8. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

ABS Inferring network structure from spikes (2008)

Stevenson IH, Rebesco JM, Hatsopoulos NG, Haga Z, Miller LE, Kording KP. SAND4. Poster. Pittsburgh, PA.

ABS A Bayesian approach to inferring functional connectivity and structure from spikes (2007)

Stevenson IH, Rebesco JM, Miller LE, and Kording KP. NIPS 2007 Workshop: - Beyond Simple Cells.

ABS Monitoring plasticity through changes in functional connectivity (2007)

Rebesco JM, Stevenson I, Solla SA, Miller LE. Program No 83.7/LL16. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience.

ABS Spatiotemporal Profiles of Brain Activation During Learning and Strategy Formulation (2007)

Zouridakis G, Baluch F, Stevenson I, Diaz J, and Subramanian D. The 6th Int'l Conf. on Functional Biomedical Imaging.

ABS Long-Range Gamma-Band Synchronization During Learning of a Complex Visuomotor Task (2007)

Zouridakis G, Baluch F, Stevenson I, Diaz J, and Subramanian D. 3rd International IEEE/EMBS CNE'07. 310-313.

ABS Analysis of functional connectivity in large-scale network models (2007)

Rebesco JM, Stevenson I, Solla SA, and Miller LE. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne). poster, III-23.

ABS Human Learning and the Neural Correlates of Strategy Formulation (2007)

Baluch F, Zouridakis G, Stevenson I, and Subramanian D. Conf Proc IEEE SMC 2007, San Antonio, TX.

ABS Flows driven by mixing in the laboratory-ocean applications (2006)

Stevenson I and Whitehead JA. EOS Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ociean Sci. Meet. Suppl. abstract OS54F-05.

ABS Density evolution of fresh water above salt with homogeneous mixing (2005)

Whitehead JA and Stevenson I. APS, 58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov, 2005, abstract # NN. 009.

Presentations

LNK Hands on Tutorial: Bayesian Approaches to Movement Decoding and Behavior

with Konrad Kording. Waikoloa, HI. Neural Control of Movement (Apr 30, 2009).

PDF Modeling populations of neurons

Talk for the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association (Jan 20, 2009).

Side Projects

09/2009 - Links for Yury Petrov's Top 100 Vision papers
01/2009 - MDW v ORD: Chicago-based visualizations of the 2009 ASA Data Expo set
12/2008 - Wii-Hack: Recording from wiimotes and balance boards using Matlab 2007a
12/2008 - Visualization: Immigration data in processing
09/2007 - PPT An overview of Bayesian statistics in neuroscience. Poster for the 2007 Neuroscience Department Retreat.