Craig Anthony Atencio

I'm a post-doc at UCSF. I received my Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the UCSF/UCB Bioengineering Graduate Group. My research is concerned with computing receptive fields of neurons using dynamic, naturalistic sounds and relating the receptive fields to the anatomical organization of auditory cortex. The photo on the left shows me about a year ago holding my niece.

Research Thoughts

Research Labs

Journals

Current Articles of Interest

Engineering links

• IEEE Xplore - the mecca of all engineering articles, though not free
• NEC Research Index - One of my favorite places to search for computational, free articles and papers
• Matlab
• World of Mathematics - a nice resource
• StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook - from Basics to ANOVA to Time Series - almost too good to be true!
• The Data Analysis BriefBook
• Christopher Bishop on Pattern Recognition
• Planet Math
• Time-Frequency Toolbox for Matlab - very nice package with a very useful manual/tutorial on time-frequency distributions
• Introduction to Higher Order Statistics - describes the world beyond 2nd order statistics
• Higher Order Statistics Home Page
• TISEAN - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
• TSTOOL - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Matlab Code
• The Kalman Filter - Great page, with the original paper!
• Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties by Robert M. Gray
• Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing by Robert M. Gray
• Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB) - hosted by  Rice University
• DSP Guru - major digital signal processing site
• DSP-Related Groups, Jobs, Books and Links - another DSP summary site
• WAVEKIT a Wavelet Toolbox for Matlab - good beginning Wavelet page with some nice, coherent software
• Introduction to Wavelets and their Applications - Harvey Mudd math course
• The Discrete Periodic Wavelet Transform
• Wavelet Course notes by Martin Vetterli
• Entropy in Information and Coding Theory - a summary web page filled with links
• Numerical Recipes - The whole book online!
• Introduction to the Bootstrap - Stanford statistics course
• Resampling Methods In Statistical Modeling - Nice, practical set of notes on computer intensive statistical methods

Speech links

• Mike Brookes - speech coding notes with nice software toolbox
• Lecture Notes in Speech Production, Speech Coding, and Speech Recognition
• comp.speech WWW site - summary site for speech issues
• Dan Ellis's Columbia Home Page - Great set of DSP course notes, etc., especially a Speech Processing class
• Martin Cooke - Selected papers and software for speech
• Philip Loizou - Very nice matlab speech software and some audio examples

Pattern Recognition links

• Christopher Bishop on Pattern Recognition
• Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox
• Classification Toolbox
• PRTools - a Matlab Toolbox for Pattern Recognition
• Self-organizing map (SOM) Toolbox
• Pattern Classification - The classic book - errata, powerpoint files, etc.
• SaGA - Spatial and Geometric Analysis Toolbox - Excellent package for analyzing two dimensional data

Neuroscience links

• Neural Coding and Perception of Sound Home Page - MIT course reviewing coding of sound in auditory periphery and brainstem; good pointers on paper discussions for beginners
• Binaural Hearing page by Michael Akeroyd - Notes and software for Binaural Modeling
• Auditory Chimera Demo - wonderful example of speech processing with accompanying code by my former boss, Bertrand Delgutte, an expert in signal processing
• Ernst Terhardt on Pitch Perception
• David Halliday: Fourier Analysis of Spike Trains
• USC BME 599 - Topics in Computational Neuroscience - theoretical course
• Thomas Weiss -  author of the very good and thorough book Cellular Biophysics; page has the solutions and matlab software for the book

Last updated 2/10/07 by caa