Main areas of research:

Circadian rhythms, epilepsy, calcium dynamics, neural noise, neural computing, optoelectronics

Interests/keywords:

Nonlinear dynamics, signal processing, stochasticity, parallel processing of large datasets, machine learning, GENESIS, NEURON, MPI / C++

Current title/position:

PhD Student

Current affiliation/employer:

Applied Chaos Lab, Arizona State University
National Engineering and Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Collaborators:

Dr. William Ditto, Arizona State University
Dr. Liang Huang, Arizona State University
Dr. Mark Spano, Ariza State University
Dr. Stephen Helms Tillery, Arizona State University
Dr. Paul Carney, University of Florida
Dr. Sachin Talathi, University of Florida
Dr. Berj Bardakjian, University of Toronto
Dr. Nazir P. Kherani, University of Toronto

PhD Advisor and University:

Dr. William Ditto, Arizona State University

Personal or laboratory homepage:

http://appliedchaos.asu.edu

Publications:

--Research Articles--

Stanley, D.A., Bardakjian, B.L., Spano, M.L., Ditto, W.L. (2011). Stochastic amplification of calcium-activated potassium currents in Ca2+ microdomains. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. pp 1-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-011-0328-x.

Stanley, D.A., Alizadeh, H., Helmy, A., Kherani, N.P., Qian, L., Zukotynski, S. (2010). SEM-mapped micro-photoluminescence studies of highly luminescent micro- clusters in erbium-doped silicon-rich silicon oxide. Journal of Luminescence 131:72–77.

Min, R., Stanley, D.A., Yuan, Z., Bonner, A., Zhang, Z. (2009). A deep non-linear feature mapping for large margin kNN classification. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. pp. 357–366. Acceptance rate: 70/786. Regular paper and oral presentation.

--Conference Abstracts--
Stanley, DA., Carney, PR., Parekh, MB., Mareci, TH., Talathi, SS., Ditto, WL. Phase shift in hippocampal circadian rhythm during the latent period of epileptic rats. Computational Neuroscience 2011 (submitted).

Talasila, H., Stanley, D., Bardakjian, B. Effects of stochastic inputs on calcium-dependent synaptic plasticity. Computational Neuroscience 2011 (submitted).

Stanley D., Bardakjian B., Spano M., Ditto W. (2011). Calcium-dependent subthreshold fluctuations in membrane voltage; a modeling study. Computational Neuroscience 2010 (BMC Neuroscience 11(Suppl 1):122).