Revised: October 2006

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

October 1985-June 1992
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, June 1992
Honors: MICRO Fellowship, Kully Pan-Pacific Award.
Dissertation: Dynamics of Synaptic Integration.
Master of Science in Computer Science June 1990

Washington University

Saint Louis, Missouri September 1979-May 1983
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science May 1983
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering May 1983
Honors: National Merit Scholarship, Washington University Engineering Scholarship, Dean’s List, Honors Assembly, Tau Beta Pi Association, Eta Kappa Nu.

Experience

University of Washington, Bothell

Computing & Software Systems Program
Associate Professor September 2001-present
Co-Director, Biotechnology & Biomedical Technology Institute 2006-present
Director, Biocomputing Laboratory September 2002-present
Assistant Professor September 1997-September 2001

University of Washington, Seattle

Computer Science & Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor September 2001-present

University of Florida, Gainesville

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visiting Associate Professor August 2004-August 2005

University of California, Berkeley

California August 1996-August 1997
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Hong Kong July 1992-August 1996
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science.

University of California, Los Angeles

California October 1987-June 1992
Graduate Student Researcher in computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, computer vision, visual perception. Developed neuron and neural network modeling software. Teaching Assistant in undergraduate computer vision laboratory class.

IBM Los Angeles Scientific Center

Los Angeles, California May 1986-May 1987
Supplemental Researcher in Robotics Laboratory. Developed Computer Vision Workstation in joint effort with UCLA. Conducted research into Connectionist computer architecture for preattentive visual motion computation.

Texas Instruments, Inc. Equipment Group

Dallas, Texas September 1983-August 1985
Electrical Design Engineer. Designed computer graphics and simulation software and hardware for development of infra-red imaging systems. Responsible for all software.

N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken

Eindhoven, Netherlands Summer 1983
Student intern. Designed hardware for computer terminal.

McDonnell Douglas Electronics Co.

Saint Charles, Missouri Academic Years 1981-1983
Computer Operator/Programmer supporting flight simulator design.

Thwing-Albert Instrument Co.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Summers 1981 & 1982
Software and hardware designer for test equipment manufacturer.

Professional Service

UW University-wide

• Vice-Chair, General Faculty Organization 2006-07
• Graduate School Representative on two doctoral committees.
• Academic Affairs Committee 2005-06
• Quantitative Skills Center Director Search Committee 2005-06
• Student Scholarship Committee 2005-06
• Technology Fee Committee 2004
• Executive Council 1997-98, 2004
• Research Grants & Contracts Task Force 2004
• Faculty Retreat Planning Committee Summer 2003
• Computing and Communications Librarian Search Committee 2003
• Teaching & Learning Center Steering Committee 2002
• Technology Endowment Task Force 2001
• Instruction & Research Support Committee Chair 2001-02
• Instruction & Research Support Committee 1997-2000
• Distinguished Professor Award Committee Winter 2000 & 2001
• Facilities Planning Committee 1998-99
• Technology Planning Advisory Committee 1998-99
• Manager of Information Systems Search Committee 1998

UW Bothell Computing & Software Systems Program

• Promotion & Tenure Committee 2005-07
• Curriculum Committee 2006-07
• Personnel Committee 2001-04, 2005-07
• Chair, Curriculum Committee 2003-04, 2005-06
• Chair, ad hoc promotion and tenure guidelines committee 2003, 2004
• Director Search Committee 2003-04
• Strategic Initiatives Committee 2003-04
• Chair, Infrastructure Committee 2000-2003
• System Administrator Search Committee 2001-02
• Curriculum Committee 2001-02
• Faculty Search Committee 1997-2000
• Ad hoc Introductory Curriculum Review Committee Spring 1999
• Ad hoc Grade Review Committee Fall 1998

HKUST University-wide committees

• Chairman, Graphics and Visualization Users Group 1994-96
• Catering and Club Needs Steering Committee 1992-93

HKUST Department of Computer Science

• Software Engineering Curriculum Committee Spring 1996
• Coordinator, Artificial Intelligence Area Committee 1994-96
• Chair, WWW Facilities Subcommittee 1994-96
• Artificial Intelligence Area Committee 1992-96
• Coach for HKUST programming team (ACM Collegiate Programming Contest) 1992-96
• Computer Science Industry Day research poster presentations April 1994, May 1995
• Undergraduate Studies Committee 1994-95
• Postgraduate Studies Committee 1993-94
• Undergraduate orientation committee September 1993
• Facilities Committee 1992-93, Spring 1996

Member, International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, Bar-Ilan University 2005-present

Officer, IEEE Computer Society, Seattle Section 1998-2004

Panel member, US National Science Foundation. Program committee, ICONIP’06. Organizing committee, IJCNN’05, ICONIP’96. Proposal reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation. Reviewer for Neuroscience, Biological Cybernetics, Physica D, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), the annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS*95-03), the International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS 2004), and ICNN’95. Reviewer, The Internet Encyclopedia, Hossein Bidgoli, ed. (Wiley, 2003) and The Handbook of Computer Networks, Hossein Bidgoli, ed. (Wiley, 2007). Textbook reviewer for Prentice Hall. Session Chair, IJCNN’93, 03. Guest editor, Moderated Young Scientists Network Digest.

Memberships

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Usenix. Registered EIT.

Skills

Familiar (natural) languages: English (native), Japanese (can get by), Mandarin and Cantonese (survival level), Spanish (rusty), Hebrew (quite rusty).

Grants

In addition to the grants below, I have written more than seven unfunded extramural grant proposals.

Academic Distinction Award, Univ. of Washington 2006-07
“Biotechnology and Biomedical Technology Institute”, co-investigator with Profs. Steve Collins and Alan Leong (UWB), $20,000.

Diversity Enhancement grant, Univ. of Washington2006-07 “Building an Inclusive CSS Culture”, co-investigator with Profs. Kelvin Sung and Carol Zander, $4,500.

National Science Foundation 2005-08
“Collaborative Proposal: CCLI-AI: Adaptation of the J-DSP On-Line Technology and Labs to Communication Networks and Multimedia Computing”, co-investigator with Andreas Spanias, Martin Reisslein, Junshan Zhang (Univ. of Arizona), $200,000 total.

Worthington Technology Award, University of Washington 2003-04
“Multimedia and Signal Computing Course Redesign”, $6,189.

Worthington Technology Award, University of Washington 2002-03
“CSS Center for Integrated Teaching, Learning & Scholarship”, co-investigator with Profs. Kelvin Sung, Munehiro Fukuda, and Charles Jackels (Computing & Software Systems, UWB), $11,380.

Office of Research, University of Washington May 2000
“Distributed Systems Research Laboratory”, co-investigator with Prof. Kelvin Sung and Prof. Mitchell Berg (Computing & Software Systems, UWB), $20,000.

Worthington Distinguished Professor Award, University of Washington 1999-2000
“Biocomputing initiative”, $3,500.

Information Technology Contract (AF/253/95), HK Industry Department 1996-98
“Cyberspace center for software industry”, co-investigator with Prof. Sam Chanson, Prof. T.C. Pong, Dr. Dik Li, Dr. Pam Drew, Dr. James Gray (Computer Science, HKUST), US$470,000.

Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKUST668/95E), HK Research Grants Council 1995-97
“Dynamical neural networks: from wetware to hardware”, with Dr. Bert Shi (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, HKUST) as co-investigator, US$33,000.

Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKUST675/95E), HK Research Grants Council 1995-97
“Analog VLSI cellular neural networks”, co-investigator with Dr. Bert Shi (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, HKUST), US$80,000.

Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKUST527/94M), HK Research Grants Council 1994-96
“Locus Coeruleus Modulation of Neuronal Circuits in the Visual System”, co-investigator with Dr. Robert N. Holdefer (Biology, HKUST), US$27,500.

Research Travel Grant, HKUST (RTG93/94.EG10) Summer 1994

Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKUST187/93E), HK Research Grants Council 1993-95
“Dynamical Neural Networks: Responses to Transient Inputs”, US$36,000.

Direct Allocation Grant (DAG92/93.EG18), HKUST 1992-93
“A Dynamical Neural Network Laboratory”, US$15,000.

Teaching

UW Bothell Computing & Software Systems Program

• Data Structures & Algorithms (undergraduate), CSS 343 Spring 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, Fall 1999, 2001, Winters 2002-04, 2006
• Mathematical Principles of Computing (undergraduate), CSS 342 Winter 1998, 2000, 2003, Spring 1999, 2001, Summer 2001, Fall 2005
• Expert Systems (undergraduate), CSS 482 Winter 1999-2002, Fall 1997, 2003, 2005
• Technical Writing for Computing Professionals (undergraduate), CSS 301 Fall 2003
• Digital Multimedia (undergraduate), CSS 457 Fall 1997, Spring 1999-2004
• Neurocomputing (undergraduate), CSS 485 Winter & Summer 1998, Fall 1999-2002
• Developed distance learning versions of CSS 482 & CSS 457 2002
• Advanced Programming Methodologies I (undergraduate), CSSAP 442 Fall 1998
• Advanced Programming Methodologies II (undergraduate), CSSAP 443 Winter 1999
• The Graphical Display of Information (undergraduate), CSSIE 450 Spring & Fall 1998

HKUST Department of Computer Science

• Computer and Programming Fundamentals II, COMP 103 Spring 1996
• Software Tools (undergraduate), COMP 111 Fall 1995
• Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence I (undergraduate), COMP 221 Spring 1993-95
• Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence II (undergraduate), COMP 321 Fall 1993
• Neural Computation (graduate), COMP 520A Fall 1994
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (graduate), COMP 521 Fall 1992
• Computation in Complex Systems (graduate seminar), COMP 695E Spring 1994

UCLA Computer Science Department

• Computer Vision Laboratory (undergraduate), CS 168L Spring & Fall 1987

UCLA Office of International Students and Scholars

• Orientation Program for new international students 1986-92

Other

• Computer Organization, for local software industry
• Operating Systems, for local software industry

Student Supervision

Over 43 Bachelor’s degree projects supervised (1993-present). Supervised one Master’s Thesis (R. Ieong, M.Phil., “Long-term potentiation and synaptic coding”, 1996), and served on two Master’s thesis committees (1994, 96). Currently supervising one Ph.D. student.

Books and Book Contributions

1. Segundo, J.P., Stiber, M., and J.-F. Vibert, “Synaptic coding of spike trains. Entrainment across synapses of one neuron by another”, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. Arbib, ed., MIT Press, 1995.

Journal Papers

1. Stiber, M., “Transient bifurcations in neural error correction”, BioSystems, in press, 2006.
2. Stiber, M., “Spike timing precision and neural error correction: local behavior”, Neural Computation 17(7): 1577-1601, 2005.
3. Gómez, L., R. Budelli, R. Saa, M. Stiber, and J.P. Segundo, “Pooled spike trains of correlated presynaptic inputs as realizations of cluster point processes”, Biological Cybernetics 92(2): 110-127, 2005.
4. Segundo, J.P., G. Sugihara, P. Dixon, M. Stiber, and L. Bersier, “The spike trains of inhibited pacemaker neurons seen through the magnifying glass of nonlinear analyses”, Neuroscience 87(4): 741-766, 1998.
5. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, and M. Stiber, “Periodically modulated inhibition of pacemaker neurons. III. The heterogeneity of the postsynaptic spike train, and how control parameters affect it”, Neuroscience 87(1): 15-47, 1998.
6. Stiber, M., R. Ieong, and J.P. Segundo, “Responses to transients in living and simulated neurons”, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 8(6): 1379-85, 1997.

7. Stiber, M., K. Pakdaman, J.-F. Vibert, E. Boussard, J.P. Segundo, T. Nomura, S. Sato, and S. Doi, “Complex responses of living neurons to pacemaker inhibition: a comparison of dynamical models”, BioSystems 40: 177-88, 1997.

8. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, M. Stiber, and S. Hanneton, “Periodically modulated inhibition and its post-synaptic consequences. I. General features. Influences of modulation frequency”, Neuroscience 68(3): 657-92, 1995.
9. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, M. Stiber, and S. Hanneton, “Periodically modulated inhibition and its post-synaptic consequences. II. Influence of pre-synaptic slope, depth, range, noise and of post-synaptic natural discharges”, Neuroscience 68(3): 693-719, 1995.
10. Segundo, J.P., M. Stiber, E. Altshuler, and J.-F. Vibert, “Transients in inhibitory driving of neurons and their post-synaptic consequences”, Neuroscience 62(2): 459-80, 1994.
11. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Global bifurcation structure of a Bonhoeffer van der Pol oscillator driven by periodic pulse trains. Comparison with data from a periodically inhibited biological pacemaker”, Biological Cybernetics 72: 55-67, 1994.
12. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “A modified radial isochron clock with slow and fast dynamics as a model of pacemaker neurons. Global bifurcation structure when driven by periodic pulse trains”, Biological Cybernetics 72: 93-101, 1994.
13. Stiber, M. and J. Skrzypek, “Computing visual direction constancy with simple shifting circuits: neural network architecture”, Journal of Artificial Neural Networks 1(1): 1-21, 1994.
14. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “A Bonhoeffer van der Pol oscillator model of locked and non-locked behaviors of living pacemaker neurons”, Biological Cybernetics 69: 429-37, 1993.
15. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Phase transition curve of a neuronal oscillator and chaos” (in Japanese), Modeling and Information Processing of Random Phenomena in Engineering and Biology, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Cooperative Report 40: 65-75, December 1992.
16. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Response characteristics of a BVP oscillator to periodic pulse stimulus” (in Japanese), ME and Bio Cybernetics Reports MBE92-12: 29-36, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, May 1992.
17. Segundo, J.P, E. Altshuler, M. Stiber, and A. Garfinkel, “Periodic Inhibition of Living Pacemaker Neurons: I. Locked, Intermittent, Messy, and Hopping Behaviors”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 1(3): 549-81, 1991.
18. Segundo, J.P, E. Altshuler, M. Stiber, and A. Garfinkel, “Periodic Inhibition of Living Pacemaker Neurons: II. Influences of Driver Rates and Transients and of Non-driven Post-synaptic Rates”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 1(4): 873-90, 1991.

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Stiber, M., “Digital multimedia, signals, and systems in the CS curriculum”, birds of a feather session, SIGCSE 2007, Covington, Kentucky, 2007, submitted.
2. Spanias, A., V. Atti, R. Chilimula, S. Haag, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, C. Tepedelenlioglu, J. Zhang, F. Bodreaux-Bartels, M. Stiber, T. Kasparis, and P Loizou, “A Collaborative Project on Java-DSP Involving Five Universities”, ASEE Conf., Chicago, June 2006.
3. Spanias, A., V. Atti, R. Chilimula, S. Haag, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, C. Tepedelenlioglu, J. Zhang, F. Bodreaux-Bartels, M. Stiber, T. Kasparis, and P Loizou, “Work in Progress — Multi-university development and dissemination of online laboratories in probability theory, signals and systems, and multimedia computing”, IEEE FIE, Indianapolis, October 2005.
4. Stiber, M. and M. Pottorf, “Response space construction for neural error correction”, IJCNN’04, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.
5. Stiber, M. and T. Holderman, “Global behavior of neural error correction”, IJCNN’04, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.
6. Stiber, M., “A Signal Computing Course for Software Undergraduates”, faculty poster, SIGCSE’04, Norfolk, VA, March 2004.
7. Stiber, M., “Non-information-maximizing neural coding”, IJCNN’03, Portland, July 2003.
8. Hrebec, D.G. and M. Stiber, “A survey of system administrator mental models and situation awareness”, ACM SIGCPR, San Diego, pp. 166-72, April 2001.
9. Stiber, B.Z., E.R. Lewis, and M. Stiber, “Auditory singularity detection by a gerbil cochlea model”, CNS*99, Pittsburgh, July 1999 and Neurocomputing 32-33: 537-43, 2000.
10. Eaton, S.L. and M. Stiber, “An ANN for recognizing melody preferences”, IJCNN’99, pp. 3552-5, Washington, DC, July 1999.
11. Stiber, B.Z., M. Stiber, E.R. Lewis, and K.R. Henry, “Categorization of Gerbil Auditory Fiber Responses”, CNS*98, Santa Barbara, California, July 1998 and Neurocomputing 26-27: 277-83, 1999.
12. Stiber, M., G.A. Jacobs, and D. Swanberg, “Logos: A Computational Framework for Neuroinformatics Research”, Proc. Ninth Int. Conf. Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp. 212-22, Olympia, Washington, August 1997.
13. Stiber, M. and G.A. Jacobs, “From cells to systems: Logos and METALogos”, CNS*97, Big Sky, Montana, July 1997.
14. Ieong, R. and M. Stiber, “Long-term potentiation effects on synaptic coding”, CNS*96, Boston, July 1996.
15. Stiber, M. and R. Ieong, “Hysteresis and asymmetric sensitivity to change in pacemaker responses to inhibitory input transients”, Int. Conf. on Brain Processes, Theories and Models. W.S. McCulloch: 25 Years in Memoriam, Grand Canary, Spain, November 1995.
16. Stiber, M. and R. Ieong, “Nonstationarity and neural coding”, Int. Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1995.
17. Sugihara, G., M. Stiber, L. Bercier, and J.P. Segundo, “The irregular discharges of inhibited pacemaker neurons: noisy, deterministic, linear and nonlinear issues”, Int. Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1995.
18. Stiber, M., R. Ieong, R. Chandramani, J.P. Segundo, J.-F. Vibert, “Synaptic coding of inhibitory transients: comparison of model and living preparation”, Computational Neuroscience (Proc. CNS*95), Bower, J., ed., Academic Press, 1995.
19. Stiber, M., L. Yan, and J.P. Segundo, “Synaptic coding of time-varying spike trains”, The Neurobiology of Computation (Proc. CNS*94), Bower, J., ed., pp. 141-6, Kluwer, 1995.
20. Stiber, M. and J.P. Segundo, “Transient responses in dynamical neural models”, International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing & Neural Networks, pp. 229-32, Hong Kong, April 1994.
21. Stiber, M. and J.P. Segundo, “Learning in neural models with complex dynamics”, Proc. IJCNN-93, 405-8, Nagoya, Japan, October 1993.
22. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Locked and non-locked responses of the BVP oscillator to periodic pulse trains”, Proc. IJCNN-93, 1313-6, Nagoya, Japan, October 1993.
23. Stiber, M. and J.P. Segundo, “Dynamics of synaptic transfer in living and simulated neurons”, Proc. ICNN-93, 75-80, San Francisco, March 1993.
24. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, M. Stiber, and S. Hanneton, “Synaptic coding of periodically modulated spike trains”, Proc. ICNN-93, 58-63, San Francisco, March 1993.
25. Stiber, M. and J. Skrzypek, “Peripheral-Motion-Triggered Attention”, proceedings of the 1990 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Los Angeles, November 1990.
26. Stiber, M. and J. Skrzypek, “Lisp-based PC vision workstation”, Proc. Image Understanding and the Man-Machine Interface 758, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 15-16 January 1987.

Invited Papers and Presentations

1. Stiber, M. “Bifurcations of neural transient responses”, International Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Marburg, Germany, August 2005.
2. Budelli, R., L. Gómez, R. Saa, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Independent or correlated presynaptic trains embody Poisson or cluster point processes”, Workshop on Advanced Methods of Physiological System Modeling, Marina del Rey, California, April 2002.
3. Marx, R. and M. Stiber, “Dynamical neural networks for sensorimotor control”, International Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Osaka, Japan, October 1999.
4. Gomez, L., R. Saa, M. Stiber, and J.P. Segundo, “Mutual information in a converging synaptic arrangement”, International Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Osaka, Japan, October 1999.
5. Segundo, J.P., L. Gomez, M. Stiber, R. Budelli, and R. Saa, “Correlation, bias and synaptic coding with converging excitation. Poisson and cluster models”, International Workshop on Neuronal Coding, Osaka, Japan, October 1999.
6. Stiber, M. and B. Lau, “Long-Term Potentiation and Synaptic Coding of Time-Varying Inputs”, Proc. ICONIP’98, pp. 621-4, Kitakyushu, Japan, October 1998.
7. Segundo, J.P., R. Budelli, R. Saa, L. Gómez, and M. Stiber, “Single neurons with many weak terminals: coding, uncertainty, and information”, Proc. ICONIP’98, pp. 23-6, Kitakyushu, Japan, October 1998.
8. Stiber, M. “Can we understand neural computation by investigating neural coding?”, Dept. of Applied Physics, Waseda Univ., Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima Univ., August 1998.
9. Stiber, M., “Long-term potentiation: intrinsic dynamics and extrinsic influences on neuron dynamics”, First Tamagawa International Forum for Brain Science, September 1996.
10. Stiber, M. and R. Ieong, “Long-term potentiation and neural coding as a single dynamical process”, ICONIP’96 Special Session on Spatio-Temporal Coding in Neural Networks, pp. 1275-80, Hong Kong, September 1996.
11. “Incorporating learning into our view of neural coding”, St.-Antoine Workshop on Dynamical Systems, Paris, June 1996.
12. “Neural coding: a dynamical perspective”, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of North Carolina., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Medicine, Univ. of Arizona. March 1995. NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston Univ., Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Tamagawa Univ., July 1995.
13. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, K. Pakdaman, M. Stiber, and O. Diez Martínez, “Noise and the neurosciences: a long history, a recent revival and some theory”, Origins: Brain and Self Organization, K. Pribram, ed., pp. 300-31, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1994.
14. Stiber, M., L. Yan, J.P. Segundo, and J.-F. Vibert, “Is there an alphabet for synaptic coding?”, Third Japanese Workshop on Neural Coding, Wakayama, Japan, September 1994.
15. “Neural coding of spike trains: some recent results”, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, August 1994.
16. Stiber, M., J.P. Segundo, and L. Yan, “Models of neural coding: experimental results, semi-justified conclusions, and wild speculations”, Second Japanese Workshop on Neural Coding, Inuyama, Japan, November 1993.
17. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Response characteristics of a neuronal model to periodic pulse trains”, Second Japanese Workshop on Neural Coding, Inuyama, Japan, November 1993.
18. Segundo, J.P., M. Stiber, and J.-F. Vibert, “Synaptic coding by spike trains”, IJCNN-93 tutorial, Nagoya, Japan, October 1993.
19. “Dynamical Neural Networks at HKUST”, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, July 1993.
20. Department of Computer Science, Lingnan (University) College, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, February 1993.
21. Altshuler, A., N. Azmy, A. Garfinkel, S. Hanneton, J.P. Segundo, M. Stiber, and J.F. Vibert, “The Dynamics of an Inhibitory Synapse”, proceedings of the Workshop on Fundamental Neurobiology, Piriápolis, Uruguay, 3-7 December 1990.

Unrefereed Papers and Presentations

1. Ieong, R. and M. Stiber, “Long-term potentiation enhances synchronized neural coding”, Memory Organization and Consolidation: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives, Tel-Aviv, May 1996.
2. Stiber, M., “The nonlinear dynamics of neural coding”, Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Complexity, Hong Kong, March 1996.
3. Stiber, M. and R. Ieong, “Mechanoreceptor coding of inhibitory input transients”, Neurons, Networks, and Motor Behavior, Satellite Symposium of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Tucson, November 1995.
4. Segundo, J.P., O. Diez Martínez, K. Pakdaman, M. Stiber, and J.-F. Vibert, “Noise in sensory and synaptic coding. A survey of its history and a summary of its conclusions”, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 1994.
5. Stiber, M., J.P. Segundo, E. Altshuler, and N. Jurisic, “Complex, complex enough, too complex? A comparison of dynamical neural models”, Technical Report HKUST-CS93-11.
6. Stiber,M. and W.J. Karplus, “Arnol’d map synthesis for periodically forced oscillators”, Technical Report HKUST-CS93-5.
7. Nomura, T., S. Sato, S. Doi, J.P. Segundo, and M. Stiber, “Models for spontaneous neuronal activity: From BVP model to mRIC model”, Society for Mathematical Biology Meeting, Cornell University, July 1993.
8. Stiber, M., “Dynamics of synaptic integration”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 21, 1993.
9. Segundo, J.P., J.-F. Vibert, M. Stiber, and S. Hanneton, “Synaptic coding: High frequency noise simplifies transfer of low frequency modulations”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society 38 (1): 318, March 1993.
10. Stiber, M., “Comparative modeling of coupled pacemaker neurons”, Eighth BMSR Workshop on Nonlinear Methods of Physiological System Modeling , 1-2 May, 1992.
11. Stiber, M. and J.P. Segundo, “Dynamics and the Language of Neurons”, Seventh Annual University of California Conference on Nonlinear Science , 1-2 March 1991.
12. Altshuler, E., A. Garfinkel, J.P. Segundo, M. Stiber, “Periodic Inhibition of Pacemaker Neurons: Locking, Chaos, Intermittency, and Walk Throughs; Non-Stationarities; Rate Dependency”, Society for Neuroscience, proceedings of the 1990 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
13. Stiber, M. and J. Skrzypek, “An Architecture for Visual Direction Constancy: Towards Shape From Motion”, UCLA MPL TR 90-1, April 1990.
14. Altshuler, E., A. Garfinkel, J.P. Segundo, M. Stiber, and G.H. Wang, “Pacemaker Neurons: Periodic and Aperiodic Responses to Periodic PSPs”, Biophysical Journal 57: 193a, 1990.
15. Mesrobian, E., J. Skrzypek, and M. Stiber, “UCLA SFINX - Structure and Function in Neural Connections”, Machine Perception Laboratory report UCLA-MPL-TR 89-8, November 1989.
16. Fuchs, A., J. Payne, M. Stiber, A. Garfinkel, and J.P. Segundo, “Poincaré Analysis of Inhibitory Synaptic Influences”, Fifth Annual University of California Conference on Nonlinear Science, 3-4 March 1989.
17. Stiber, M., “A Lisp-Based Vision Workstation”, IBM Conference on Academic Computing, Berkeley, California, November 1987.
18. Stiber, M. and J. Skrzypek, “A Scheme-Based PC Vision Workstation”, Conference of the Southern California Artificial Intelligence Society , San Diego, California, April 1986.

Work in Progress

1. Stiber, M., “Signal Computing: Digital signal processing as computer science”, in preparation for SIGCSE 2007.
2. Stiber, M. and J. Principe, “A liquid state machine model of cortical cell culture bursting”, in preparation for Neuronal Coding 2007.
3. Stiber, M., “Stochastic-resonance-like effects in neural error correction”, in preparation.
4. B.Z. Stiber, E.R. Lewis, M. Stiber, and K.R. Henry, “Singularity responses of a reconstructed gerbil cochlea”, in preparation.