Recent News
- February 2013 Our manuscript on "Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area" has been accepted at NeuroImage (see below).
- November 2012 MATLAB code for our functional connectivity methods has been released (see Analysis Code below).
- October 2012 Our paper detailing a new version of our functional connectivity method was selected for an oral presentation at the Machine Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging Workshop (at NIPS 2012).
- July 2012 Our manuscript describing a new functional connectivity method has been accepted for publication in NeuroImage (see below).
- May 2012 I gave an oral presentation on "Neural Representation of Human-Object Interactions" at the 2012 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Naples, FL.
About Me
- 2009-current: Computer Science PhD student working in the Stanford Vision Lab under Fei-Fei Li.
- Research Interests:
- Representations of objects, actions, and scenes in the human visual system
- Applications of machine learning and probabilistic models to neuroimaging data
- 2005-2009: Undergraduate at Princeton University
- Major: Electrical Engineering
- Certificates:
- Engineering Physics
- Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Professional Experience
- Summer 2013: Research Intern at Google (Mountain View, CA)
- Summer 2009: Software Developer at the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (Philadelphia, PA)
- Summer 2006: Intern at Kulicke & Soffa Industries (Fort Washington, PA)
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Analysis Code
- learnConnectivity.m: MATLAB code implementing functional connectivity methods from "Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity using Spatial Regularization" and "Discovering Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Regions" (see below). Sample data and a demo function are included. [4.7MB zip]
Refereed Publications
Copyright Notice: These materials are presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights are retained by authors or by other copyright holders.
C. Baldassano D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei.
"Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area."
NeuroImage, 2013 (In Press)
C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei.
"Discovering Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Regions."
Machine Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging Workshop, NIPS 2012 (in press)
C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei.
"Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity using Spatial Regularization."
NeuroImage, Volume 63, Issue 3, 15 November 2012, Pages 1099-1106
Conference and Workshop Presentations
- C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Decoding objects undergoing contextual violations." Poster Presentation at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL (2011).
- C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Objects in context: decoding and connectivity." Poster Presentation at the Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Principal Investigator Meeting, Princeton, NJ (2011).
- C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Fine-Grained Functional Connectivity using Spatial Regularization." Poster Presentation at the NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (2011).
- M.C. Iordan, C. Baldassano, D.B. Walther, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Translation Invariance of Natural Scene Categories." Oral Presentation at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL (2011).
- A.G. Lustig, C. Baldassano, E. Caddigan, L. Fei-Fei, D.M. Beck. "Does category-based attention change the representation of scene category?" Poster Presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2012).
- C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Neural Representation of Human-Object Interactions." Oral Presentation at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL (2012).
- C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Discovering Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Regions." Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation at the Machine Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging Workshop, NIPS (2012).
- C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area." Poster Presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2013).
- C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area." Oral Presentation at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL (2013).
Invited Talks
- "Finding Neural Correlates of Object and Action Understanding." Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences (SINTN) Annual Neuroscience Research Conference (2012).
- "The World in a Grain of Sand: Using voxel-scale information to learn about large-scale integration." Stanford Center for Mind, Brain and Computation (MBC) Graduate Training Seminar Talk (sponsored by an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Grant, IGERT) (2013).
Other Publications
- I. Ashwash, A.R. Atreya, C. Baldassano, D. Benjamin, B.C. Cattle, B.M. Collins, A. Downey, G.H. Franken, J. Glass, Z. Glass, L. Gorman, J.S. Herbach, W. Hu, U. Javed, J.R. Mayer, S.M. Momen, A.M. Saxe, S.N. Schiffres, D. Yu, A.L. Kornhauser. "Princeton University Technical Paper." Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Nov. 2007. [pdf]
- C. Baldassano, G. Franken, J. Mayer, A. Saxe, D. Yu. "Kratos: Princeton University's Entry in the 2008 IGVC." 21st Annual IS\&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Proc. Vol. 7252, 72520I (2009); DOI:10.1117/12.810509. [pdf]
- C. Baldassano. "Compact Attitude Sensor System using SR-UKF." National Science Foundation SUNFEST 2008 Report TR-CST12SEP08, p. 164-195. [pdf]
Other Interests
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