Mounya Elhilali

Teaching

 

· 520.682: Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Spring’09) [webpage]

The field of computational neuroscience explores the neural code that allows the brain to solve various problems such as information representation, learning, and decision-making. This year, the course will survey current literature in auditory systems neuroscience, including topics of sensory processing, perception, attention and learning as pertaining to speech and sound processing and language representation. This course has a seminar format. Students are expected to review and critique papers, give presentations and participate in discussions.

 

· 520.445/580.445: Introduction to Speech and Audio Processing (Fall’08)[webpage]

 

This course gives a foundation in current audio and speech technologies, and covers techniques for sound processing by humans and machines. Topics include fundamentals of signal processing and pattern recognition, acoustics, auditory perception, speech production and synthesis, speech estimation. The course will explore applications of speech and audio processing in human computer interfaces such as speech recognition, speaker identification, coding schemes (e.g. MP3), music analysis, noise reduction.

 

· 520.682: Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Spring’08) [webpage]

The field of computational neuroscience explores the neural code that allows the brain to solve various problems such as information representation, learning, and decision-making. In this course, we will survey modeling techniques from systems theory and machine learning, and investigate their use in exploring diverse brain functions including information processing and neural computations in sensory networks, behavioral and cognitive networks, as well as development and plasticity functions. In addition to introductory lectures, the course will take a seminar-style format, reviewing and critiquing current papers on computational neuroscience.