University of Illinois

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neuroscience Program

Todd P. Coleman

Current Research Endeavors

Many of my current research endeavors stem from my learning about point processes for reasoning about neural spiking while doing a postdoc in computational neuroscience.  They involve the use of point process theory for the following  purposes:

· Developing dynamic point process models of neural spiking for both computational neuroscience and brain-machine interface applications

· Designing practical error-correcting codes for communication via packet timings across networks

· Information-theoretic characterization of the  fundamental limits of communication/compression with timings in single-terminal and multi-terminal settings

· Enabling and analyzing security scenarios that consider packet timings

Recent New Directions

More recently, I have also developed an interest in feedback information theory for principled design methodologies in brain-machine interfaces.

I hold B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Michigan (GO BLUE), as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.  I joined UIUC in Fall 2006.

 

Assistant Professor

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Research Interests:

· Information Theory

· Operations Research

· Computational Neuroscience

· Brain-Machine Interfaces