Predoctoral Fellow @ Currently investigating the neural basis of hearing as a PhD Candidate in the Center for Neural Science at NYU. Specific areas of interest include population coding, large-scale correlation analysis, machine learning, reward valuation, risk analysis. Skills: - Developed software to understand how the brain encodes patterns of sounds. - Built two-photon microscope for collection of neural data. - Big data analytics using Python, Matlab. Teaching: - Neural Data Science TA (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Summer 2015. - Brain & Behavior TA (NYU), Fall 2011 & Spring 2013. - Biological Signal Acquisition and Analysis TA (Iowa), Spring 2008. Relevant references: Bornstein AM, Nylen EL, Steele SA. Unblocking the Neural Substrates of Model-Based Value. The Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 31(28):10117-10118. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/28/10117.full From September 2010 to Present (5 years 4 months) Graduate Research Assistant @ Retinal electrophysiology and clinical genetics. Relevant references: Thompson S, Stasheff SF, Hernandez J, Nylen E, East JS, Kardon RH, Pinto LH, Mullins RF, Stone EM. Different inner retinal pathways mediate rod-cone input in irradiance detection for the pupillary light reflex and regulation of behavioral state in mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Feb 1;52(1):618-23. Schindler EI, Nylen EL, Ko A, Affatigato L, Heggen A, Wang K, Sheffield VC, Stone EM. Deducing the Pathogenic Contribution of recessive ABCA4 alleles in an outbred population. Human Molecular Genetics, 2010, Vol 19, No 19, 3693-3701. From 2008 to 2010 (2 years)

PhD, Neural Science @ New York University From 2010 to 2015 MS, Biomedical Engineering @ University of Iowa From 2008 to 2010 BSE, Biomedical Engineering @ University of Iowa From 2004 to 2008 Erik Nylen is skilled in: Python, Electrophysiology, Two-photon Microscopy, Data Analysis, Analytics, Matlab, Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Computational Modeling, Theoretical Neuroscience, Web Analytics, Information Theory, Patch-clamp