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Division of Engineering and Applied Science | Cell: (626) 818-5038 |
Mail Stop 104-44 | Fax: (626) 583-4963 |
Pasadena, CA 91125-4400 | e-mail: zoran@robotics.caltech.edu |
USA | web: http://robotics.caltech.edu/~zoran |
Education | D.Sc. Systems Science and Mathematics -- August 2001 | |
  | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
  | Dissertation: Signal Processing, Computation and Estimation in Biological Neural Networks | |
  | Advisor: Professor Bijoy K. Ghosh | |
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  | M.S. Systems Science and Mathematics -- May 1998 | |
  | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
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  | Diploma, Control Engineering -- May 1995 | |
  | UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro | |
  | Thesis: On Stability of Linear Systems With Delayed State Defined Over Finite Time Interval | |
  | Advisor: Professor Dragutin Debeljkovic | |
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Professional | DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE | |
Experience | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA | |
  | Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2001 -- present | |
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  | CENTER FOR BIOCYBERNETICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS | |
  | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
  | Research Assistant, October 1999 -- October 2001 | |
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  | SEVER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | |
  | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
  | Research Assistant, August 1996 -- August 2001 | |
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  | DEPARTMENT OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | |
  | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
  | Instructor, January 2000 -- August 2001 | |
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Research | Signal processing and control in bio-systems, including | |
Interests | control algorithms for movable neuro-probes | |
  | information decoding from neural data | |
  | modeling and parameter estimation in biological systems | |
  | brain machine interfaces | |
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Teaching | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO | |
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Instructor | SSMa326 Probability and Statistics for Engineers (SU00 SU01) | |
  | SSM 490A Systems Engineering Laboratory (SP01) SSM 202 Introduction to Systems Science and Mathematics (FL00) SSM 581 Instruments and Components for Automatic Control (SP00) Duties included organizing and preparing lecture notes, teaching, assigning homeworks, projects and exams. |
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Supervised | Ka-Ling Chan, Masters Thesis, and Sheilah B. Gleason, Senior Design Project, | |
Students | both at the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics. | |
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Teaching | EEb431 Control Systems I (SP98 SP99 FL99 FL00) | |
Assistant | SSM 502 Mathematics of Modern Engineering II (SP98 SP99 SP00) | |
  | EE 551 Probability and Stochastic Processes (FL98 FL99) SSM 501 Mathematics of Modern Engineering I (FL97 FL98 FL99) SSM 326 Probability and Statistics for Engineering (SU98 SU99) Duties included grading homework assignments, organizing and conducting help sessions and proctoring exams. |
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Consultant | EE431 Control Systems I (SP00) | |
  |   a Department of Systems Science and Mathematics b Department of Electrical Engineering |
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Awards and |  Research Assistantship, Washington University, Department of Systems Science | |
Fellowships |   and Mathematics, 1996 - 2001 | |
  |  Research Fellowship, Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Science and Technology, 1995 - 1996 | |
  |  Outstanding Student Award, University of Belgrade, School of Mechanical Engineering, 1995 | |
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Refereeing | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | |
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Professional |   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |
Membership |   The Mathematical Association of America | |
  |   Society for Neuroscience | |
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Immigration |   Permanent Resident of the United States of America | |
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Publications |   | |
Dissertations | Z. Nenadic. Signal Processing, Computation and Estimation in Biological Neural Networks. | |
  | D.Sc. Dissertation, Washington University, St.
Louis, MO, 2001. Z. Nenadic. On Stability of Linear Systems With Delayed State Defined Over Finite Time Interval. Diploma Thesis, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 1995. |
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Journal Articles |
Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick, "Autonomous electrode positioning for
optimization of extracellular recordings," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.,
submitted.
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J.G. Cham, E.A. Branchaud, Z. Nenadic, B. Greger, R.A. Andersen, and J.W.
Burdick,
"Semi-chronic motorized
microdrive and control algorithm for autonomously isolating, optimizing
and maintaining extracellular action potential,"
J. Neurophysiol., 93: 603--608, 2005. Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick, "Spike detection using the continuous wavelet transform," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 52, pp. 74--87, 2005. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Encoding and decoding of analog signals with a population of neurons," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 39(2-3), pp. 181--196, 2004. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Propagating waves in visual cortex: A large-scale model of turtle visual cortex," J. Comp. Neurosci., vol. 14, pp. 161--184, 2003. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P.S. Ulinski, "Modeling and estimation problems in the turtle visual cortex," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 49, pp. 753--762, 2002. Z. Nenadic, C.H. Anderson, and B.K. Ghosh, "Control of arm movement using population of neurons," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 35, pp. 1261--1269, 2002. Z. Nenadic, B. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Propagating waves in visual cortex: A large scale model of turtle visual cortex," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 35, pp. 743--749, 2002. Z. Nenadic and B. K. Ghosh, "Signal processing and control problems in the brain," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 21, pp. 28--41, 2001. M.P. Lazarevic, D.L. Debeljkovic, Z.L. Nenadic, and S.A. Milinkovic, "Finite-time stability of delayed systems," IMA J. Math. Control Inform., vol. 17, pp. 101--109, 2000. |
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Refereed Conference Papers |
Z. Nenadic, D.S. Rizzuto, R.A. Andersen, and J.W. Burdick,
"Discriminant based feature selection with information theoretic objective,"
submitted, 2005. |
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R.A. Andersen, J.W. Burdick, S. Musallam, H. Scherberger, B. Pesaran,
D. Meeker, B.D. Corneil, I. Fineman, Z. Nenadic, E. Branchaud, J.G. Cham,
B. Greger, Y.C. Tai, and M.M. Mojarradi,
"Recording advances for neural
prosthetics,"
in Proc. of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 5352--5355,
2004. B.K. Ghosh and Z. Nenadic, "Position and velocity estimation in the visual cortex," in Proc. of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, pp. 2361--2366, 2002. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P.S. Ulinski, "Large scale simulation for velocity prediction in the turtle visual cortex," in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 405--410, 2001. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Computation with biological neurons," in Proc. of the 2001 American Control Conference, vol. 1, pp. 257--262, 2001. A.D. Polpitiya, Z. Nenadic, and B.K. Ghosh, "Optimal filtering in biological neural networks," in Proc. of the 2001 American Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 3539--3542, 2001. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Control of arm movement using population of neurons," in Proc. of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 2, pp. 1776--1781, 2000. Z. Nenadic, B. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Spatiotemporal dynamics in a model of turtle visual cortex," Neurocomputing, vol. 32-33, pp. 479--486, 2000. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Dynamic-control problems with on/off cells," in Proc. of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 399--404, 1999 D.Lj. Debeljkovic, S.A. Milinkovic, M.B. Jovanovic, and Z.Lj. Nenadic, "On the stability of linear systems with delayed state defined over finite time interval," in Proc. 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol.3, pp. 2771--2772, 1997. D.Lj. Debeljkovic, Z.Lj. Nenadic, Dj. Koruga, and S.A. Milinkovic, "On practical stability of time delay systems: New results," in Proc. of the 2nd Asian Control Conference, vol III. pp. 543--546, 1997. Z.Lj. Nenadic, D.Lj. Debeljkovic and, S.A. Milinkovic, "On practical stability of time delay systems," in Proc. American Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 3235--3236, 1997. | |
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Abstracts |
Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick,
"Robust unsupervised detection of action potentials using the wavelet
transform," Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 279.1, 2003.
E.A. Branchaud, Z. Nenadic, D. Meeker, J. Cham, R.A. Andersen, and J.W. Burdick, "Movable electrodes for autonomous cell isolation and tracking: algorithm, experiments and hardware," Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 607.16, 2003. |
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References |   |   |
Primary | Prof. Joel W. Burdick | Prof. Bijoy K. Ghosh |
References | Division of Engineering and Applied Science | Department of Systems Science and Mathematics |
  | California Institute of Technology Mail Code 104-44 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Phone: (626) 395-4139 Fax: (626) 583-4963 jwb@robotics.caltech.edu Prof. Philip S. Ulinski Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy The University of Chicago 1027 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, USA Phone: (773) 702-8081 Fax: (773) 702-0037 pulinski@midway.uchicago.edu |
Washington University Campus Box 1040 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA Phone: (314) 935-5818 Fax: (314) 935-6121 ghosh@netra.wustl.edu Prof. Charles H. Anderson Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Washington University Campus Box 8108 660 S. Euclid Avenue Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA Phone: (314) 362-1799 Fax: (314) 747-1150 cha@shifter.wustl.edu |
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Secondary | Prof. Alberto Isidori | Prof. Stefano Soatto |
References | Department of Systems Science and Mathematics | Computer Science Department |
  | Washington University Campus Box 1040 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA Phone: (314) 935-6015 Fax: (314) 935-6121 isidori@zach.wustl.edu |
University of California Los Angeles Boelter Hall 3531d Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Phone: (310) 825-4840 Fax: (310) 794-5056 soatto@cs.ucla.edu |