Dr. Antonio R. C. Paiva - Post-doctoral Fellow

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Background

Antonio R. C. Paiva received his B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2003. During his undergraduate studies, he received four merit scholarships, a Dr. Vale Guimaraes award for best district student at the University of Aveiro, and an Eng. Ferreira Pinto Basto award from Alcatel Portugal for top graduating student in the major. After completing his undergraduate studies, he did research in image compression as a research assistant of Dr. Armando Pinho for almost a year.

In the fall of 2004, he joined the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory under supervision of Dr. Jose C. Principe for his graduate studies, having obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering in the fall of 2005 and the summer of 2008, respectively. His doctoral research focused on the development of a reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces framework for analysis and processing of point processes, with applications on single-unit neural spike trains.

Current Responsibilities

Antonio R. C. Paiva is doing research on image processing with Dr. Tasdizen. He will be developing and applying novel kernel and information-theoretic methodologies, with particular aim at applications in image processing of biological and biomedical settings.

Research Interests

His research interests are, broadly, signal and image processing, with special interest in biomedical and biological applications. In particular, these include: kernel methods and information theoretic learning, image processing, brain-inspired computation, principles of information representation and processing in the brain, sensory and motor systems, and development of biological and biomedical data analysis methods.