Last update: 11/10/2009

Hiroki Asari, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae (Nov 10th, 2009: PDF)

Education

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
B.S. in Biophysics and Biochemistry
March 31st, 2003.

Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Ph.D. in Biological Scienses
Defense: July 2nd, 2007; Completion: July 31st, 2007
Dissertation: Auditory System Characterization

Research Experience

Research Volunteer, The University of Tokyo, Feb 2001 - Mar 2002.
Akiyama Lab: Screening of Proteins Interacting with Endoglin Cytoplasmic Region

Undergraduate Research Program, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Jun 2002 - Aug 2002.
Hamaguchi Lab: Suppression of DBC2 by RNA Interference

Undergraduate Thesis Research, The University of Tokyo, Apr 2002 - Mar 2003.
Emori Lab: DNA Methylation and the Regulation of Olfactory Receptor Genes

Research Assistant, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, May 2003 - Jul 2003.
Chklovskii Lab: Approach to find out the rule of cell distribution in the mouse cortex

Ph.D. Thesis Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Jul 2004 - Jul 2007.
Zador Lab: Auditory Systems Characterization

Post-Graduate Research Assistant, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Aug 2007 - Jan 2008.
Zador Lab: Sparse Overcomplete Representation as a Principle for Computation in the Brain

Postdoctral Fellow, Harvard University, Feb 2008 - present.
Meister Lab: Analysis of sensory signal processing and information flow in retinal circuit



Journal Papers

[1] Asari, H., Pearlmutter, B.A., & Zador, A.M. (2006) Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem. J. Neurosci. 26(28): 7477-7490.

[2] Asari, H. & Zador, A.M. (2009) Long-lasting context dependence constrains neural encoding models in rodent auditory cortex. J. Neurophys. 102(5): 2638-2656.



Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and Unpublished Manuscripts

[1] Pearlmutter, B.A., Asari, H., & Zador, A.M. (2005) Neuronal Predictions of Sparse Linear Representations. Forum Acusticum 2005, Aug 29-Sep 2, Budapest, Hungary.

[2] Asari, H., Olsson, R.K., Pearlmutter, B.A., & Zador, A.M. (2007) Sparsification for Monaural Source Separation. In Makino, S., Lee, T-W., & Sawada, H. (eds.) Blind Speech Separation, Chap. 14, pp.387-410, Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6478-4

[3] Asari, H., Biot, C., & Zador, A.M. (in preparation) Sparse Coding Predicts Noiseless Sensory Representations and Noisy Neurons.



Presentation

[1] Pearlmutter, B.A., Asari, H., & Zador, A.M. (2004) Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem.
Poster, Gordon Research Conference (Sensory coding and the natural environment), Oxford, U.K.

[2] Asari, H., Wehr, M.S. & Zador, A.M. (2005) Linear Decodability for High-Level Auditory Representations
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[3] Asari, H., Oviedo, H. & Zador, A.M. (2006) Context Dependence of Neural Responses in Rat Primary Auditory Cortex
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[4] Asari, H., Oviedo, H. & Zador, A.M. (2006) Context-Dependent Responses in the Rat Auditory Cortex
Poster, Gordon Research Conference (Sensory coding and the natural environment), Big Sky, Montana

[5] Asari, H., Oviedo, H. & Zador, A.M. (2007) Context-Dependence and Response Predictability in Rat Auditory Cortex
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[6] Asari, H., Biot, C. & Zador, A.M. (2008) Sparse Coding Predicts Noiseless Sensory Representations and Noisy Neurons
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[7] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2009) Central Roles of Bipolar Cells in Retinal Neuronal Circuits
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[8] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2009) Central Roles of Bipolar Cells in Retinal Neuronal Circuits
Poster, Sloan-Swartz Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience, Cambridge, Massachusetts



Awards

Farish-Gerry Fellowship, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Aug 2003 - Jul 2007.

Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Apr 2009 - Mar 2011.



Other activities

Student representative:
Executive committee for the Watson School of Biological Sciences, Apr 2005 - Mar 2006.

Teaching experience:
Dolan DNA Learning Center, Jan 2004 - May 2004

Reviewer experience:
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
Journal of Zhejiang University, Science.