Stephen V. David
  
Contact information
Address:1103 A.V. Williams Building, College Park, MD 20742
Phone:(301) 405-0321
Email:svd at umd dot edu
Web:http://ece.umd.edu/~svd
  
Education
1988-92Gonzaga College High School
1992-95Harvard University. A.B., magna cum laude. Applied Mathematics.
1998-04University of California, Berkeley/San Francisco. Ph.D., Bioengineering.
  
Professional experience
1994-96Harvard University Robotics Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
1994-96Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1997-98Consultant, Decision Architects, Cambridge, MA.
2004-05Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
2005-presPostdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
  
Community involvement
2001President, Bioengineering Association of Students, UCB/UCSF.
2001-presPeer reviewer for Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Neural Computation, Trends in Neuroscience, Journal of Vision, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neurophysiology.
2002 Contributor, STRFpak (strfpak.berkeley.edu).
2002-presMember, Society for Neuroscience (sfn.org).
2005-presCo-founder and administrator, Neurotree (neurotree.org).
2006-presCo-founder and administrator, Neural Prediction Challenge (neuralprediction.berkeley.edu).
2006-presMember, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (aro.org).
2009-presSteering Committee, spARO (ARO Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Medical Residents).
  
Grants and awards
1998Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation.
2005Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing Fellowship, University of Maryland.
2006Kirschstein National Research Service Award, NIDCD (1 F32 DC008453-02).
2008Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2009Pathway to Independence Award, NIDCD (1 K99 DC010439-01).
  
Publications

J.B. Fritz, S.V. David, S. Radtke-Schuller, P. Yin, S.A. Shamma. (In review) Behavioral gating, categorical encoding and memory in frontal cortex mirror task-related plasticity in auditory cortex.

S.V. David, N. Malaval, S.A. Shamma. (In press) Decoupling action potential bias from cortical local field potentials. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.

N. Mesgarani, S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Influence of context and behavior on the population code in primary auditory cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. E-pub ahead of print.

S.V. David, N. Mesgarani, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Rapid synaptic depression explains nonlinear modulation of spectro-temporal tuning in primary auditory cortex by natural stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience. 29: 3374-3386.

S. Atiani, M. Elhilali, S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Task difficulty and performance induce diverse adaptive patterns in gain and shape of auditory cortical receptive fields. Neuron. 61(3): 467-480.

S.V. David, B.Y. Hayden, J.A. Mazer, J.L. Gallant. (2008) Attention to stimulus features shifts spectral tuning of V4 neurons during natural vision. Neuron. 59(3): 509-521.

N. Mesgarani, S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2008) Phoneme representation and classification in primary auditory cortex. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123(4): 2433-2433.

N. Mesgarani, S.V. David, S.A. Shamma. (2007) Representation of phonemes in primary auditory cortex: How the brain analyzes speech. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 4: 765-768.

S.V. David, N. Mesgarani, S.A. Shamma. (2007) Estimating sparse spectro-temporal receptive fields with natural stimuli. Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 18(3): 191-212.

K.N. Kay, S.V. David, R.J. Prenger, K.A. Hansen, J.L. Gallant. (2007) Modeling low-frequency fluctuation and hemodynamic response timecourse in event-related fMRI. Human Brain Mapping. 29(2): 142-156.

S.V. David, B.Y. Hayden, J.L. Gallant. (2006) Spectral receptive field structure explains shape selectivity in area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology. 96(6): 3492-3505.

S.V. David, J.L. Gallant. (2005) Predicting neuronal responses during natural vision. Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 16(2-3): 239-60.

S.V. David, W.E. Vinje, J.L. Gallant. (2004) Natural stimulus statistics alter the receptive field structure of V1 neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(31): 6991-7006.

K.A. Hansen, S.V. David, J.L. Gallant. (2004) Parametric reverse correlation reveals spatial linearity of retinotopic human V1 BOLD response. NeuroImage. 23(1): 235-243.

R.J. Prenger, M.C.-K. Wu, S.V. David, J.L. Gallant. (2004) Nonlinear V1 responses to natural scenes revealed by neural network analysis. Neural Networks. 17: 663-679.

F.E. Theunissen, S.V. David, N.C. Singh, A. Hsu, W.E. Vinje, J.L. Gallant. (2001) Estimating spatiotemporal receptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from their responses to natural stimuli. Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 12(3): 289-316.

D.J. McFarland, L.M. McCane, S.V. David, J.R. Wolpaw. (1997) Spatial filter selection for EEG-based communication. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 103(3): 386-94.

 

Reviews/book chapters

J.B. Fritz, M. Elhilali, S.V. David, S.A. Shamma. (2007) Auditory attention: Focusing the searchlight on sound. Currrent Opinion in Neurobiology. 17(4): 437-455.

J.B. Fritz, M. Elhilali, S.V. David, S.A. Shamma. (2007) Does attention play a role in dynamic receptive field adaptation to changing acoustic salience in A1? Hearing Research. 229(1-2): 186-203.

M. C.-K. Wu, S.V. David, J.L. Gallant. (2006) Complete functional characterization of sensory neurons by system identification. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 29: 477-505.

S.V. David. (2004) Nonlinear analysis of the neural basis for natural vision. Doctoral dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

S.V. David. (1996) Design and testing of a natural computer input device. Undergraduate thesis. Harvard University.

 

Selected conference abstracts

S.V. David, B.N. Pasley, N. Mesgarani, A. Flinker, E.F. Chang, N.E. Crone, S.A. Shamma, R.T. Knight. (2009) Spectro-temporal encoding of speech by ECoG signals in human auditory and frontal cortices. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

J.B. Fritz, S.V. David, P. Yin, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Attention-driven memory for task-relevant acoustic stimuli in the frontal cortex of the ferret. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

N. Mesgarani, S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Noise robust representation of speech in the primary auditory cortex. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

S. Atiani, S.V. David, N. Malaval, S. Shamma. (2009) Local field potentials and single unit spiking activity: comparison of spectro-temporal tuning properties in A1. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

S. Klampfl, S.V. David, P. Yin, S.A. Shamma, W. Maass. (2009) Integration of stimulus history in information conveyed by neurons in primary auditory cortex in response to tone sequences. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

N. Schinkel-Bielefeld, S.V. David, S.A. Shamma, D.A. Butts. (2009) A generalized nonlinear model of cortical encoding of natural speech. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 34.

S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2009) Local field potentials reveal cortical network activity during auditory behavior. Mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

S.V. David, J.B. Fritz, S.A. Shamma. (2008) Direction of plasticity in primary auditory cortex depends on behavioral contingencies. Mid-winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

S.V. David, B.Y. Hayden. (2006) Neurotree: An academic genealogy of neuroscience. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 32.

 

Last updated: 2009-09-28