Editor:  Parra, Lucas    Email:   click to email
Brief Bio:  Dr. Parra is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York (City University of NY). Previously he was Technology Leader for Adaptive Image and Signal Processing at Sarnoff Corporation (1997-2003) and Member of the Technical Staff at the Machine Learning and the Imaging Departments at Siemens Corporate Research (1995-1997). During 2002-2003 he was also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Currently he is assistant editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. His expertise includes machine learning and pattern recognition, acoustic array processing, emission tomography, and electro-encephalography. His current research in biomedical signal processing focuses on functional brain imaging and computational models of the central nervous system. His interest is the role of timing in perceptual information processing. Dr. Parra received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Germany in 1996.
Focus:  Machine Learning
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