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Kanaka Rajan, the Glossary

Kanaka Rajan is a computational neuroscientist in the and founding faculty in the at Harvard University.^[1]

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Anna University alumni
Indian women scientists

Allen Institute for Brain Science

The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a division of the Allen Institute, based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on bioscience research.

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Anna University

Anna University is a public state university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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The White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is a collaborative, public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of supporting the development and application of innovative technologies that can create a dynamic understanding of brain function.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Calcium imaging

Calcium imaging is a microscopy technique to optically measure the calcium (Ca2+) status of an isolated cell, tissue or medium.

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Cell (journal)

Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research papers across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematics, computer science, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that govern the development, structure, physiology and cognitive abilities of the nervous system.

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David W. Tank

David W. Tank is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist who is the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Kanaka Rajan and David W. Tank are American neuroscientists.

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Dimensionality reduction

Dimensionality reduction, or dimension reduction, is the transformation of data from a high-dimensional space into a low-dimensional space so that the low-dimensional representation retains some meaningful properties of the original data, ideally close to its intrinsic dimension.

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Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology (from Greek ἥλεκτ, ēlektron, "amber"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of physiology that studies the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues.

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Eve Marder

Eve Marder is a University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Kanaka Rajan and Eve Marder are American neuroscientists, American women neuroscientists and Brandeis University alumni.

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Gina G. Turrigiano

Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and is the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at Brandeis University. Kanaka Rajan and Gina G. Turrigiano are American neuroscientists and American women neuroscientists.

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Habenula

The habenula (diminutive of Latin meaning rein) is a small bilateral neuronal structure in the brain of vertebrates, that has also been called a microstructure since it is no bigger than a pea.

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Haim Sompolinsky

Haim Sompolinsky (born 1949, in Copenhagen, Denmark), is the William N. Skirball Professor of Neuroscience at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (formerly the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation), and a professor of physics at the Racah Institute of Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States.

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James S. McDonnell Foundation

The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell.

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Janelia Research Campus

Janelia Research Campus is a scientific research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that opened in October 2006.

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Karl Deisseroth

Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. Kanaka Rajan and Karl Deisseroth are American neuroscientists.

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Larry Abbott

Laurence Frederick Abbott. Kanaka Rajan and Larry Abbott are American neuroscientists and Brandeis University alumni.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Neural circuit

A neural circuit is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated.

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Neural network

A neural network is a group of interconnected units called neurons that send signals to one another.

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Neural network (machine learning)

In machine learning, a neural network (also artificial neural network or neural net, abbreviated ANN or NN) is a model inspired by the structure and function of biological neural networks in animal brains.

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Neuron (journal)

Neuron is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Posterior parietal cortex

The posterior parietal cortex (the portion of parietal neocortex posterior to the primary somatosensory cortex) plays an important role in planned movements, spatial reasoning, and attention.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Random matrix

In probability theory and mathematical physics, a random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable—that is, a matrix in which some or all of its entries are sampled randomly from a probability distribution.

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Recurrent neural network

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks for sequential data processing.

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Sloan Research Fellowship

The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars".

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Statistical mechanics

In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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William Bialek

William Samuel Bialek (born 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is a theoretical biophysicist and a professor at Princeton University and The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Working memory

Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_Rajan

Kanaka Rajan, the Glossary

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Anna University alumni

Indian women scientists

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