California Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant, 2004-2007
- Data analysis of fMRI signals acquired during neuroeconomics experiments, by integrating new statistical and signal processing methods, such as Canonical correlation analysis, Hotelling’s T2 tests, Other multivariate methods (PCA/ICA), Ridge regression, Deconvolution, Generalized cross validation, and Denoising with wavelets.
- Testing validity of utility theory in the brain of subjects playing a simple gambling card game
- Aiming to discover how the human brain aggregates information from stock market trading orders
- Collaborating with Columbia university on encoding of risk aversion in the brain
- Testing human behavior among people with theory of mind deficit (Asperger’s syndrome)
- Languages used: C++, Matlab, Unix scripts
Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2002
- Collaborated with the University Politehnica of Bucharest
- Designed teaching program that modeled the differential equations of the oscillations in an Erbium-YAG laser
- Language used: Matlab
Undergraduate Researcher, 2002
- Digital electronics projects: designed keyboard/billboard interface
- Used VHDL to program CPLD
Undergraduate researcher, 2000
- Collaborated to devise a fully featured encryption program
- Implemented IDEA and 2048-bit RSA
- Languages used: C++, PowerPC assembly