Brian Lau
Curriculum Vitae

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Dept. of Neuroscience
Columbia University
1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 87
NYSPI Kolb Research Annex, Room 561
New York, NY 10032
Education
Ph.D. - New York University
Neural Science
2000-2007
B.A.  - University of California, Berkeley
Molecular & Cell Biology, emphasis in Neurobiology
1994-1998
Honors & Awards
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
Travel Fellowship, Adaptive Representation & Control in Vision Symposium
Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship
Graduate Student Travel Grant, NYU
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biology Fellows Award
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Stipend
2005-2006
2004
2000-2003
2000,2003
1997
1996
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Search Pubmed
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Value representations in the primate caudate nucleus during free-choice. Neuron, in press, 2008.
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Action and outcome encoding in the primate caudate nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 14502-14, 2007. abstract | Adobe PDF 1.4M
Bayer, H.B., Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Statistics of midbrain dopamine neuron spike trains in the awake primate. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98: 1428-39, 2007. abstract | Adobe PDF 668k
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Dynamic response-by-response models of matching behavior in rhesus monkeys. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84(3): 555-79, 2005. abstract | Adobe PDF 412k
Touryan, J., Lau, B. and Y. Dan.  Isolation of relevant visual features from random stimuli for cortical complex cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(24): 10811-8, 2002. abstract | Adobe PDF 472k
Lau, B., Stanley, G.B. and Y. Dan.  Computational subunits of visual cortical neurons revealed by artificial neural networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(13): 8974-9, 2002. abstract | Adobe PDF 280k

Other Writing
Glimcher, P.W. and Lau, B..  Rethinking the thalamus. Nature Neuroscience, 8(8): 983-4, 2005. abstract | Adobe PDF 216k
Platt, M.P., Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Situating the superior colliculus within the gaze control network. Chapter 1 in The Oculomotor System: New Approaches for Studying Sensorimotor Integration. Hall, W.C. and Moschovakis, A.K., eds., 2003.
Paninski, L., Lau, B. and A. Reyes.  Noise-driven adapation: in vitro and mathematical analysis. Neurocomputing, 52-54: 877-83, 2003. abstract | Adobe Paper PDF 328k | Adobe Poster PDF 412K

Abstracts
Rutledge, R., Lau, B., Geghmna, K.D., Myers, C.E., Gluck, M.A. and P.W. Glimcher.  Matching behavior in humans: Comparing healthy subjects, monkeys, and Parkinson's disease. Society for Neuroscience, 2005. abstract
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Neurons in striatum encode variables predicted by reinforcement learning models in a decision-making task. Society for Neuroscience, 2004. abstract
Glimcher P.W. and B. Lau.  Reinforcement learning models of basal ganglia function in a decision-making task. Society for Neuroscience, 2004. abstract
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Comparing models of choice in a dynamic environment. Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, 2004.
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  Modelling how monkeys learn from their decisions. Computational & Systems Neuroscience (CoSyNe), 2004. poster
Lau, B. and P.W. Glimcher.  How monkeys learn from their decisions: Behavior and models for physiology. Society for Neuroscience, 2003. abstract
Touryan, J., Lau, B. and Y. Dan.  Additive and divisive interactions in cortical coding of visual features. Society for Neuroscience, 2002. abstract
Touryan, J., Lau, B. and Y. Dan.  Nonlinear analysis of complex cells in cat visual cortex. Vision Sciences Society, 2001. abstract
Fu, Y.X., Lau, B. and Y. Dan.  Temporal specificity in the plasticity of human spatial perception. Society for Neuroscience, 2000. abstract
Lau, B. and W.J. Freeman.  Spatio-temporal analysis of multisite field potentials in conditioned rabbits. Society for Neuroscience, 25: 1415, 1999.
Stanley, G.B., Heiser, L.M., Lau, B. and Y. Dan.  Predicting neuronal responses in the striate cortex with neural networks. Society for Neuroscience, 25: 1549, 1999.
Reviewing Activities
Ad hoc reviewer for Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS Computational Biology, Neural Networks
Research Experience
Predoctoral Fellow, New York University
Laboratory Rotations: Prof. Peter Lennie, Prof. Alex Reyes
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Paul Glimcher
2000-present

 
Staff Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator: Prof. Yang Dan
Visual cortical neurophysiology and visual psychophysics
1999-2000

 
Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator: Prof. Walter J. Freeman
Analysis of EEG from animals performing discrimination tasks
1996-1999

 
Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator: Prof. Rainer K. Sachs
Mathematical modeling of cell population growth dynamics
1996

 
Other Activities
The Neurobiology of Decision-making, Pre-COSYNE Workshop
2004
Computational Neuroscience, summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2002
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, New York University
Math Tools for Neural Science, Center for Neural Science
Teaching assistant for graduate course
2002

 
Teaching Assistant, New York University
Behavioral & Integrative Neural Science, Center for Neural Science
Taught weekly recitation for a upper division undergraduate course
2002

 
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley
MCB 160L - Neurobiology Lab, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
Taught the laboratory portion of a upper division undergraduate course
1999