Education and Professional Experience

2021 –               President and CEO of NextLifeAI, LLC
Objective: Develop autobiographical machine learning models of people across multiple life stages

2020 –               Principal Data Scientist, Canolty Communications, LLC
Objective: Freelance software development (Python/R/SQL), research, and data science

2020 – 2020     Data Scientist, BNL-Consulting, LLC
Objective: Use Data and Statistical Models to Provide Novel Insights and Improve Decision Making

2018–2019         Research Scientist in Computational Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University 
Objective: Clarify core principles of computation and communication in distributed brain networks
2016–2017      Visiting Scholar in Computational Neuroscience, Department of Biology, York University
Objective: Investigate dynamic spike-field signatures of distributed functional cell assemblies
 
2014–2016      Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Objective: Clarify core principles of computation and communication in distributed brain networks
 
2013–2014      Post-Doctoral Fellow (Lab of Daniel Mathalon and Judith Ford) • Univ. of California, San Francisco
Objective: Predict the onset of schizophrenia using large-scale network patterns in EEG activity
 
2009–2013     Post-Doctoral Fellow (Lab of Jose M. Carmena) • Univ. of California, Berkeley
Objective: Characterize patterns of coupling between single neurons and multi-site LFP oscillations
 
2003–2009    PhD, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience (Lab of Robert T. Knight) • Univ. of California, Berkeley
Objective: Map large-scale functional brain networks using the human electrocorticogram (ECoG)
 
1998–2002      Instructor, Nuclear Physics & Thermodynamics • U.S. Naval Nuclear Power Training Command
Objective: Train future reactor operators in nuclear physics, thermodynamics, and fluid flow
 
1993–1998       BS, Mathematics and Cognitive Neuroscience • University of Georgia
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Awards and Fellowships

2011                  NIH NINDS Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) 1K99NS070627-01A1
                                • Investigating Computation and Communication in Multi-Scale Brain Networks
2007                NIH NINDS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) F31NS060406-01A1      
                                • Event-Related Changes in the Electrocorticogram Produced by Language
2004                Varela Research Grant, Mind and Life Institute
                                • Tracking and Training Attention via the Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential
2004                National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) 2004016118
2002                Navy Achievement Medal, U.S. Navy
2002                National Defense Service Medal, U.S. Navy 
2001                 Meritorious Unit Commendation, U.S. Navy
1998                 Magna cum Laude with High Honors, University of Georgia Honors Program
1994                 National Security Education Program Scholarship for Study Abroad Shanghai, China
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Organizer for Symposia and Workshops

  1. Large-scale brain dynamics. (2007). Neural Information Processing Systems Annual Conference (NIPS), December, 2007, Whistler, Canada. Two day, twenty person workshop. (Co-organizer with Kai Miller).
  2. Neuronal oscillations in multi-scale brain networks. (2010). 29th Int. Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN2010), October, 2010, Kobe, Japan. Four speaker symposium. (Co-organizer with Noriko Tsuru).
  3. The role of neuronal oscillations in computation and communication in multi-scale brain networks. (2011). 11th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), September, 2011, Mallorca, Spain. Four speaker symposium. (Symposium chair).

Invited Lectures

  1. The utility of the ECoG signal for brain-machine interface control. (2005). 3rd Int. BCI Meeting, Albany, NY.
  2. High gamma band activity as a metric of attentional focus. (2005). Mind and Life SRI, Garrison, NY.
  3. Theta/high gamma coupling and the oscillatory hierarchy in human neocortex. (2006). Neuropace, Palo Alto, CA.
  4. Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human brain. (2007). Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS), Large-Scale Brain Dynamics Workshop, Whistler, BC.
  5. Tracking multi-scale interactions between distinct brain regions during complex behavior. (2008). Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Workshop: Top-down or Bottom-up? Snowbird, UT.
  6. New frontiers in rehabilitation of movement disorders. (2008). Northern CA Ataxia Support Group, Lafayette, CA.
  7. Applying information theoretic measures to computation and communication in neural ensembles. (2009). Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, & Computers, Pacific Grove, CA.
  8. Using neuronal oscillations to investigate large-scale brain networks. (2010). HBM 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
  9. Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically-dispersed functional cell assemblies. (2010). BIRS 10w5102: Linking neural dynamics and coding: correlations, synchrony, and information, Banff, Canada.
  10. The role of neuronal oscillations in local computation and long-range communication. (2010). 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN2010), Kobe, Japan.
  11. Rhythms of the brain. (2010). Science@Cal Lecture Series, Berkeley, CA.
  12. From cell assemblies to large-scale brain networks. (2010). Stanford ECoG Working Group, Stanford, CA.
  13. Cross-level coupling in brain-machine interfaces. DARPA REPAIR project meeting, Maimi, FL.
  14. Cross-level coupling in multi-scale brain networks: task-dependent coupling between large-scale LFP patterns and single neurons. (2011). Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Workshop: Developing simplified algebras to describe large-scale brain dynamics. Snowbird, UT.
  15. Task-dependent coupling between large-scale LFP patterns and single neurons. (2011). Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS2011) Workshop: Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience. Stockholm, Sweden.
  16. Cross-level coupling between single neurons and large-scale LFP patterns in multi-scale brain networks. (2011). Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego.
  17. Coupling between brain rhythms and single neuron activity. (2012). Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA.
  18. The brain’s got rhythm: network oscillations and the human brain. (2012). Oscher Lifelong Learning Institute Summer Program, Athens, GA.
  19. Cross-level coupling in multi-scale brain networks. (2013). Dynamics of Multifunction Brain Networks, U Chicago and UCSD Biocircuits Institute MURI Winter School, San Diego, CA.
  20. A topographic map of mental context - Discussant. (2013). Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS), University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA.
  21. Task-dependent changes in coupling between oscillatory activity and the neurons within functional ensembles. (2013). Oxford Oscillations Workshop, Oxford, UK.
  22. A spiking neural network model for the control of oscillatory phase differences between multiple brain areas (2016). Princeton Oscillations Workshop, Princeton, NJ, USA.  

Conference Posters

  1. Oga, T, Fuhrmann, G, Canolty, RT, Swann, NC, Chung, A, Mima, T, Knight, RT. (2004). Coherent alpha and beta oscillations between supplementary and primary motor areas during motor preparation. SFN, San Diego.
  2. Dalal, SS, Edwards, E, Kirsch, HE, Canolty, RT, Soltani, M, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT, Nagarajan, SS. (2005). Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical networks preceding finger movement and speech production. ISBET.
  3. Canolty, RT, Edwards, E, Dalal, SS, Soltani, M, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Berger, MS, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2005). Gamma power is phase-locked to theta oscillations in human electrocorticogram. SFN, Washington, DC.
  4. Handwerker, DA, Chung, S, Berman, JI, Edwards, E, Soltani, M, Canolty, RT, Berger, MS, Knight, RT, Henry, RG. (2006). Combined use of ECoG and DTI to track information flow in neurosurgical patients. SFN, Atlanta.
  5. Edwards, E, Dalal, SS, Canolty, RT, Kirsch, HE, Nagarajan, SS, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2006). High gamma activity tracks language processing in the neocortex. SFN, Atlanta.
  6. Fogelson, N, Edwards, E, Canolty, RT, Dalal, SS, Kirsch, HE, Nagarajan, SS, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2006). Prefrontal cortex high frequency gamma oscillations during the n-back working memory paradigm. SFN, Atlanta.
  7. Canolty, RT, Edwards, E, Dalal, SS, Soltani, M, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Berger, MS, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2006). Task-dependent modulation of theta/high gamma coupling strength in human neocortex. SFN, Atlanta
  8. Alpert, GF, Mullen, T, Suppiah, S, Edwards, E, Canolty, RT, Dalal, SS, Soltani, M, Kirsch, HE, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2007). Functional connectivity and information flow in the human brain during language processing: evidence from ECoG data. CNS, New York.
  9. Canolty, RT, Soltani, M, Dalal, SS, Edwards, E, Dronkers, NF, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2007). Electrocorticographic evidence that high gamma activity differentiates processing of words and pseudowords. CNS, New York.
  10. Canolty, RT, Soltani, M, Dalal, SS, Edwards, E, Dronkers, NF, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2007). Target detection increases high gamma power over lateral frontal cortex. SFN, San Diego.
  11. Bastos, A, Mullen, T, Canolty, RT, Pasley, B, Freeman, R, Knight, RT. (2008). SSVEP-based Single-Trial Classification of Attention. CNS, San Francisco.
  12. Swann, NC, Tandon, N, Canolty, RT, Ellmore, T, Dreyer, S, Aron A. (2008). An intracranial EEG study of response inhibition. SFN, San Diego.
  13. Swann, NC, Tandon, N, Canolty, RT, Ellmore, TM, McEvoy, LK, DiSano, M, Dreyer, S, Aron, AR. (2009). Intracranial EEG shows primary motor and prefrontal signatures of stop signal response inhibition. OHBM, San Francisco, CA.
  14. Canolty, RT, Soltani, M, Koepsell, K, Cadieu, CF, Dalal, SS, Edwards, E, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2008). Auditory target detection activates frontal and parietal corticies: evidence from high gamma power and low-frequency phase coherence in the subdural electrocorticogram. ICON X, Bodrum, Turkey.
  15. Canolty, RT, Kennerley, SW, Ganguly, K, Wallis, JD, Carmena, JM. (2009). Spikes from single neurons can depend on global brain state. SFN, San Diego.
  16. Canolty, RT, Ganguly, K, Kennerley, SW, Koepsell, K, Cadieu, CF, Wallis, JD, Carmena, JM. (2010). Single-neuron spike timing depends on global brain dynamics. COSYNE, Salt Lake City.
  17. Canolty, RT, Soltani, M, Koepsell, K, Cadieu, CF, Dalal, SS, Edwards, E, Nagarajan, SS, Kirsch, HE, Barbaro, NM, Knight, RT. (2010). Auditory target detection generates high gamma power and long-range theta phase coherence in lateral frontal and parietal areas in humans. The Frontal Lobes, Toronto, Canada.
  18. Canolty, RT, Ganguly, K, Cadieu, CF, Koepsell, K, Carmena, JM. (2011). Reversible, task-dependent changes in the coupling of spike timing to distributed LFP patterns. SFN, Washington, DC.
  19. Canolty, RT, Ganguly, K, Carmena, JM. (2012). Task-dependent changes in cross-level coupling between single neurons and multi-scale network activity. AREADNE 2012, Santorini, Greece.
  20.  Canolty, RT, Koepsell, K, Carmena, JM. (2012). A distributed spiking neural network model for the dynamic control of oscillatory phase differences between multiple brain areas. SFN, New Orleans, LA.
  21. Canolty, RT, Carmena, JM. (2013). Cross-level coupling as a potential mechanism for the dynamic maintenance of context and task-set: single neurons as network detectors and effectors. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS), University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA.

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (1)
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Journal of Neuroscience (16)
Journal of Neuroscience Methods (4)
Nature (1)
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