BEFORE BECOMING A PROFESSOR AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERT IN COMPUTER - BRAIN INTERFACE, et al, LUCAS PARRA WAS AFFILIATED FOR MORE THAN SIX YEARS w/SARNOFF CORPORATION aka STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE LEARNING THE ROPES. PAUL SAJDA, PROFESSOR OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HAS A SIMILAR HISTORY w/SARNOFF CORPORATION aka SRI Int'l FOR THE SAME LENGTH OF TIME - SIX YEARS. My guess is, you can bet he has the same Experience in the Intelligence Community as do other professors affiliated with the STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE and BRAIN - COMPUTER INTERFACE. Notice under Research Interests: "...the work is often coupled with auditory and visual psychophysics and always incorporates computational or mathematical models."
Lucas C. Parra
Education
1985-1995: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
Ph.D. in Physics and Computer Science, 1996
Affiliation
08/2003 - Current: City College of New York - Professor of Biomedical Engineering
03/2002 - 07/2002: Columbia University - Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
04/1997 - 07/2003: Sarnoff Corporation - Technology Leader, Adaptive Signal and Image Processing
04/1995 - 03/1997: Siemens Corporate Research - MTS, Imaging Department
Research Interests
The general area of interest is how temporal information of natural stimuli is encoded and processed by the brain. Experimental techniques focus on interpreting and modulating brain activity in humans non-invasively using electro-encephalography and trans-cranial electrical stimulation, in short: "reading" and "writing" the brain with electric fields. The work is often coupled with auditory and visual psychophysics and always incorporates computational or mathematical models.
In the News
- "Blinded by the lyric? Study reveals why we get the words wrong", MSNBC web site, Health Section (March 27, 2009)
- "Talking in person better", American Morning, CNN (March 4, 2009)
- BreakOut!: Your Brain's Search Engine, Forbes.com Video Network (January 2010)
- Documentary: The Brain, History Channel (November 10, 2008)
- "Tapping the Computing Power of the Unconscious Brain" IEEE Spectrum Video (August 2008)
- "A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting", IEEE Spectrum (April 2008).
- "When the brain is a component of the computer", Politiken (Danish newspaper, July 2007).
- "Brain-Computer Interfaces: Where Human and Machine Meet", IEEE Computer Magazine (January 2007)
- "Subliminal Search", MIT Technology Review (July 2006)
- "Man and machine vision in perfect harmony", New Scientist, (July 2006)
- "This Is a Computer on Your Brain", Wired News (July 2006)
Teaching Experience
BME I5100 Biomedical Signal Processing (3 credits, graduate)
BME I5000 Medical Imaging and Image Processing (3 credit, graduate)
BME 22000 Biostatistics and Research Methods (3 credits, undergraduate)
BME 50500 Image and Signal Processing in Biomedicine (3 credits, undergraduate)
Current Research Topics (Collaborators)
Tinnitus modeling and psychophysics (Barak Pearlmutter, UNI; Glenis Long, CUNY)
EEG single-trial, real-time analysis (Paul Sajda, Columbia)
Effects of electric fields on endogenous network activity (Marom Bikson, CCNY)
Current Students
Jacek Dmochowski, PostdocXiang Zhou, Ph.D. candidate
Davide Reato, Ph.D. candidate
Joao Dias, Ph.D. candidate
Former Students
Yuzhuo Su, alias Suzy, Ph.D. in BME, 2010.Christoforos Christoforou, Ph.D. CS, 2009.
Mads Dyrholm, Postdoc, 2006-2007
Christopher Alvino, MS, 2001-2002
Publications
See here a full list of publications, demos and code.
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