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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Andrew T. Sornborger Address: Dr. Andrew T. Sornborger Cell: (706) 254-0856 Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] University of California, Davis https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew Sornborger Davis, CA 95616 https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sornborger-0340869 Education: 1991-95 Brown University, Providence, R.I. Degree: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, September 1995 Thesis: The Structure of Cosmic String Wakes Advisor: Prof. Robert Brandenberger 1989-91 Brown University, Providence, R.I. Degree: Sc.M. in Physics, May 1991 1981-85 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Degree: A.B. Computational Linguistics, June 1985 Honors: Cum Laude, Honors Awards: Elected to Membership of Sigma Xi (1994). Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research (1994). Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Physics (1991). Fellowships: NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship (HPCC Fellowship). NASA Fellowship (in association with Teaching Grant). Raynolds Expedition Fund Fellowship (for language study in Inner Mongolia, China, 1984). Goodman Grant (for language study in Inner Mongolia, China, 1984). Languages: Chinese, French, German, Japanese. Employment: 2014- Professional Researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis 2010-2013 Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis 2012- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and College of Engineering University of Georgia 2008-2012 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Mathematics and College of Engineering University of Georgia 2003-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia 2003-2005 Adjunct Professor, Biomathematical Sciences Department, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2001-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Biomathematical Sciences Department, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 1999-2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Biomathematical Sciences Division, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Lawrence Sirovich, Group Head 1997-1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Rocky Kolb, Group Head 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Relativity Group, Cambridge University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Stephen Hawking, Group Head 1993-1995 HPCC Research Fellow, NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Program, Brown University, Department of Physics Robert Brandenberger, Advisor 1992-1993 Research Fellow, Brown University, Department of Physics, Robert Brandenberger, Advisor Research Support: 1. UGA Faculty Research Grant, Two-photon Fluorimetric Imaging of Mouse Whisker Barrel Cortex $7,650, January, 2004 - December, 2004 PI - A. Sornborger Status - Completed 2. UGA Engineering Grant, Intrinsic Fluorimetric Imaging of Neural Activation in Cultured Cells and Zebrafish University of Georgia Research Foundation $90,000, July 2004 - June 2006 PI - A. Sornborger, Co-PIs - J.D. Lauderdale, C.H. Keith Status - Completed 3. Intrinsic Fluorimetric Imaging at the System and Cellular Levels National Institutes of Health NIBIB R21 EB005432 $404,000, July 2006 - June 2008 PI - A. Sornborger, Co-PIs - J.D. Lauderdale, C.H. Keith Status - Completed 4. Workshop on Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis National Science Foundation DMS 0906557 $30,000, August 2009 - August 2011 PI - T. Taha, Co-PIs - A. Sornborger, J. Prestegard, A. Summers, J. Arnold Status - Completed 5. Theoretical Development of a General Purpose Molecular Collision Simulator National Science Foundation PHY 0939853 $150,000, September 2009 - December 2010 PI - P. Stancil, Co-PIs - A. Sornborger, M. Geller, J. Martinis Status - Completed 6. Predicting Bacterial Metabolism Under Varying Environmental Forcing Conditions Franklin Research Seed Grant $2,000 January 2012 - December 2012 Co-I's - A. Sornborger, C. Meile Status - Completed 7. Online Multivariate Statistical Neural Imaging Data Analysis National Institutes of Health, NIMH R21 MH085973 $358,000 July 2010 - June 2014 PI - C. Fall, Co-I - A. Sornborger Status - Completed 8. Light Driven Tools for Developmental Neurophysiology National Institutes of Health, NINDS R01 NS070159 $1,832,000, February 2010 - January 2014 Co-PIs - T. Dore, J.D. Lauderdale, Co-I - A. Sornborger Status - Completed 9. Quantum Cyberinfrastructure for the Simulation of Complex Quantum Systems National Science Foundation, DMS 1029764 $2,050,000 September 2010 - August 2014 PI - M. Geller, Co-PIs - A. Sornborger, P. Stancil, J. Martinis Status - Completed 10. CRCNS: Quantitation of Network Dysfunction in Epilepsy - Understanding the Inhibitory Restraint National Institutes of Health, NINDS R01 NS090645 $1,414,000, July 2014 - June 2019 PI - A. Sornborger, Co-Is James D. Lauderdale, Peter Kner, Scott Baraban Status - Active 11. CRCNS Data Sharing: Sharing and Evangelization of Light-Sheet Imaging Seizure Data National Science Foundation, CRCNS Program $300,000, submission date October 29, 2015 Status - Pending 12. Connecting Brain Rhythms with Algorithms Guggenheim Foundation Budget negotiable if awarded, submitted September 2015 Status - Pending Patents: 1. Methods and Systems for Analyzing Ratiometric Data Inventors: A.T. Sornborger, J.D. Lauderdale, C.H. Keith, J.M. Broder, J.L. Praissman U.S. Patent 8,265,360 (2013) 2. Methods and Systems for Enhancing Data Inventor: A.T. Sornborger U.S. Patent 9,014,501 (2015) 3. Method for Enhancing Estimation of Covariance and Cross-Spectral Matrices Inventor: A.T. Sornborger Provisional Patent Application - not pursued by UC Regents of the University of California, UC Case No. 2013-450-1 4. Method for Exactly Transferring Graded Information in a Neuromorphic Circuit Inventors: A.T. Sornborger, Louis Tao Patent Pending Regents of the University of California, UC Case No. UC15-136-1PSP Reviewer: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A,B,D,E, Physics Letters A, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Statistics in Medicine, Neuroimage, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Entropy, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Scientific Reports PLoS Computational Biology U.S. Federal Grant Panel Review: NSF - CRCNS Editor: Board of Editors, International Journal of Computer Mathematics Board of Editors, Dataset Papers in Physics Book Chapters: 1. (2004) Pesaran, B., Sornborger, A., Nishimura, N., Kleinfeld, D. and Mitra, P.P., Spectral Analysis for Dynamical Imaging Data. In Imaging in Neuroscience and Development: A Laboratory Manual (R. Yuste and A. Konnerth, editors), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY. 2. (2006) Geller, M., Prichett, E. and Sornborger, A. Quantum Computing with Superconductors I: Architectures Proceedings of the NATO-ASI Summer Workshop on Manipulating Quantum Coherence in Solid State Systems Springer Verlag, New York 3. (2007) Sornborger, A. Optical Imaging Observed Brain Dynamics, by P.P. Mitra and H. Bokil Oxford University Press, USA Completed Manuscripts in Preparation or Review: 1. Ball, R., Page, A.T., Acuff, S., Singer, R., Gaudet, J., Hariharan, V., Keith, C.H., Sornborger, A. and Lauderdale, J.D. A Comparison of Evoked Seizure Activity in the Mature and Immature Brain 2. Sornborger, A., Li, J., Timmons, C., Takahama, Y., and Manley, N.R. MiCASA: A New Method for Quantifying Cellular Organization in the Thymus in review, Nature Methods 3. Wang, Z., Sornborger, A., and Tao, L. Graded, Dynamically Routable Information Processing with Synfire-Gated Synfire Chains arXiv:1510.07592 in review, PLoS Computational Biology 4. Wang, C., Xiao, Z.C., Wang, Z., Sornborger, A. and Tao, L., A Fokker-Planck Approach to Graded Information Propagation in Pulse-Gated Feedforward Neuronal Networks arXiv:1512.00520 in review, Physical Review E Original Research Publications: 1. (1989) Cutts, D., Hoftun, J., Sornborger, A., Astur, R., Johnson, C. and Zeller, R. The Use of Neural Networks in the D0 Data Acquisition System IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 36, 1490-1493. 2. (1989) Cutts, D., Hoftun, J., Sornborger, A., Johnson, C. and Zeller, R. Neural Networks for Event Filtering at D0 Computer Physics Communications 57, 478-482. 3. (1992) Prokopec, T., Sornborger, A. and Brandenberger, R. Texture Collapse Physical Review D45, 1971-1983. 4. (1993) Maxson, D. and Sornborger, A. Reactions Induced by 150-350 keV Deuterons on 12C and 13C Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B79, 293-296. 5. (1993) Brandenberger, R., Sornborger, A. and Trodden, M. Gamma Ray Bursts from Ordinary Cosmic Strings Physical Review D48, 940-942. 6. (1993) Brandenberger, R., Mukhanov, V. and Sornborger, A. A Cosmological Theory Without Singularities Physical Review D48, 1629-1642. 7. (1993) Sornborger, A. A Semi-Analytical Study of Texture Collapse Physical Review D48, 3517-3521. 8. (1997) Sornborger, A., Brandenberger, R., Fryxell, B. and Olson, K. The Structure of Cosmic String Wakes Astrophysical Journal 482, 22-32. 9. (1997) Sornborger, A., Carroll, S. and Pyne, T. The Collapse of Exotic Textures Physical Review D55, 6454-6465. 10. (1997) Sornborger, A. A High-Resolution Analysis of Cold and Hot Dark Matter in Cosmic String Wakes Physical Review D56, 6139-6145. 11. (1998) Chamblin, A., Ashbourn-Chamblin, J., Emparan, R. and Sornborger, A. Abelian Higgs Hair for Extreme Black Holes and Selection Rules for Snapping Strings Physical Review Letters 80, 4378-4381. 12. (1998) Chamblin, A., Ashbourn-Chamblin, J., Emparan, R. and Sornborger, A. 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