CV

Deborah Won
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Southern California
1450 San Pablo St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
323.442.6775 (w)
323.442.6790 (f)
wond@usc.edu

Education

Post-doctoral	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery. July 2007 - present
Graduate	Duke University Durham, NC Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2007 Dissertation Title An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Spike Sorting in a Neuroprosthetic Model
Undergraduate	MIT Cambridge, MA B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000 Minor, Biomedical Engineering

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Liker MA, Won DS, Rao V, and Hua SE. Deep brain stimulation: an evolving technology. Proceedings of the IEEE 96(7), 2008.
Won DS, Tiesinga PHE, Henriquez CS, and Wolf PD. An analytical comparison of the information in sorted and non-sorted cosine-tuned spike activity. Journal of Neural Engineering 4:322-335, 2007.
Won DS and Wolf PD. A simulation study of information transmission by multi-unit microelectrode recordings. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 15: 29-44, 2004.
Won DS and Wolf PD. A computational study on the effect of firing rate properties on multi-unit information. (submitted)

Proceedings / Abstracts

Won DS, Liker MA, Humayun MS. An analysis of the informational benefit of spike sorting under varying noise conditions. 15th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Irvine, CA. May 2008.
Won DS, O’Doherty JE, Carmena JM, Phelps EE, Nicolelis MAL, Henriquez, and Wolf PD. A Comparison of Linear Predictor Performance Using Unsorted and Sorted Neural Spike Activity. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Oct 2004.
O’Doherty JE, Won DS, Zacksenhouse M, Lebedev MA, Carmena JM, Nicolelis MAL, Wolf PD, Henriquez CS. Data reduction of simultaneous multi-electrode neural recordings using principal component analysis. IEEE Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. Oct 2004.
Won DS, Chong DY, and Wolf PD. Effects of spike sorting error on information content in multi-neuron recordings. 1st International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Capri Island, Italy. March 2003.
Morizio J, Won DS, Obeid I, Bossetti C, Nicolelis, and Wolf PD. 16-channel neuro pre-conditioner device. 1st International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Capri Island, Italy. March 2003.
Mehta S and Won D. “Controlling a Khepera With a 2D Optical Flow Chip”. Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering: Report 2002, not peer-reviewed.
Won DS and Wolf PD. Design of a Switched-Capacitor Filter for an Integrated Circuit NeuroChip. IEEE BMES Conference. Durham, NC. Oct 2001.
McGinnis M, Marantz A, Mehta J, Won D, and Poeppel D. An MEG study of lexical decision. In Proceedings of the 1997 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 155-165. Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1997.

Patent

Wolf PD and Won DS. Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Neural Channel Selection in a Multi-channel System U.S. Patent Publication No. US-2006-0041203-A1. Filing Date: Aug. 20, 2004.

Deborah Won Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Neurosurgery University of Southern California 1450 San Pablo St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 323.442.6775 (w) 323.442.6790 (f) wond@usc.edu

Deborah Won
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Southern California
1450 San Pablo St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
323.442.6775 (w)
323.442.6790 (f)
wond@usc.edu