''Nishant Mehta''\n[[BrainLab | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/brainlab]] / [[Fastlab | http://www.fast-lab.org]]\n[[College of Computing | http://www.cc.gatech.edu]]\n[[Georgia Institute of Technology | http://www.gatech.edu]]\n[img[emailAddress.png]]

Nonlinear ICA (manifold learning, semidefinite programming)\nActivity recognition in the brain (machine learning methods for temporal data)\nEstimating dependence in neural spike trains (kernel methods)\nHigh dimensional kernel density estimation

[[Who is this man?]]\n[[Current Research Happenings]]\n[[Past Research Happened]]

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[[FuncICA | funcica_sdm09.pdf]] (published)\nDeep measures of similarity for structured data (in submission)\nRecognizing sign language in the brain (in submission)\nOptimal control of a steady-state visual evoked potential brain-computer interface (to be submitted)\n

Nishant Mehta

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~niche

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[>img[self_photo_saltillo_shrink.jpg]]\nI'm a fourth year ~PhD student in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. I am interested in developing statistical machine learning algorithms for structured (mostly temporal) data. This so far includes electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for brain-computer interface applications, as well as genetics applications.\n\nCurrently I'm working on kernel methods and dependence-related things for structured data like sequences, images, babies, etc.\n\nI'm advised by [[Melody Moore Jackson|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~melody]] (Brainlab) and [[Alex Gray|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~agray]] ([[FASTlab | http://www.fast-lab.org]]), and I collaborate with [[Thad Starner|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad]] on some very exciting work to recognize sign language in the brain. Czech out [[MLPACK|http://mloss.org/software/view/152/]], a power machine learning library from ~FASTlab.