Last update: 03/01/2012

Hiroki Asari, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae (Mar 1st, 2012: 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Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and Unpublished Manuscripts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] Asari, H. (2004) Non-negative Matrix Factorization: A possible way to learn sound dictionaries

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

[3] 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

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

[5] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (in preparation) The Projective Field of Single Bipolar Cells in the Retina.

[6] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (in preparation) The axon terminals of retinal bipolar cells work as independent visual channels.

[7] Real, E., Asari, H., Gollisch, T., & Meister, M. (in preparation) Probing the inner details of the retina from the outside.



Selected Recent Presentations and Abstracts

[1] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2010) The Projective Field of Single Bipolar Cells in the Retina
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah

[2] Asari, H. (2010) Which is the right way to go, receptive field or projective field?
Invited talk, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) workshop (title: Linearity and its discontents -- Is there life in a post-STRF world?), Snow Bird, Utah

[3] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2010) Projective Field of Single Bipolar Cells in the Retina
Invited poster, 13th Annual Symposium Neuronal Function and Neurologic Disorders, Frascati, Italy

[4] Asari, H. (2011) Projective Field of Single Bipolar Cells in the Retina
Invited seminar, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

[5] Asari, H. (2011) Projective Field of Single Bipolar Cells in the Retina
Invited seminar, the University of Tubingen, Germany

[6] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2012) Feedback from retinal ganglion cells to the inner retina
Poster, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, Utah



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.
Gatsby Cosyne Fellowship, 2010 (travel award).



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.
Neural Networks.
Neural Information Processing Systems.