PhD Student Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science Department
Advisor:
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Graduate Training Program (2010-)
Program in Neural Computation (2008-2010)
Alumnus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS, Computer Science, summa cum laude
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology, summa cum laude
Email comar@cs.cmu.edu
GitHub cyrus-
Twitter @neurocy
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Office 9003 GHC
Interests
  • Extensibility mechanisms for typed programming systems
  • Computational science and high-performance computing
  • Structured, keyboard-driven program and data editors
  • Predictive programmable interfaces for
  • Collaborative infrastructure for science and social change
  • Dynamics and computation in spiking neural circuits
Publications
Type-Directed, Whitespace-Delimited Parsing for Embedded DSLs
C. Omar, B. Chung, D. Kurilova, A. Potanin and J. Aldrich
International Workshop on The Globalization of Domain Specific Languages (GlobalDSL 2013)
To appear, Montpellier, France, July 2, 2013

Active Code Completion
C. Omar, Y. Yoon, T. D. LaToza and B. A. Myers
34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012)
Zurich, Switzerland, 2-9 June 2012. pp. 859-869.

Neural correlation is stimulus modulated by feedforward inhibitory circuitry
J. W. Middleton, C. Omar, B. Doiron and D. J. Simons
Journal of Neuroscience 32(2):506-18 (2012)

Programming Systems on the Road to Exascale Computing
C. Omar and J. Vetter
DOE CSGF HPC Workshop (2011)

A Feedback Information-Theoretic Approach to the Design of Brain-Computer Interfaces
C. Omar, A. Akce, M. Johnson, T. Bretl, R. Ma, E. Maclin, M. McCormick and T. Coleman
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 27: 1, 5-23 (2011)

Policies for neural prosthetic control: initial experiments with a text interface
C. Omar, M. Johnson, T. Bretl and T. Coleman
2008 American Control Conference (ACC 2008)

Querying the user properly for high-performance brain-machine interfaces:
recursive estimation, control and feedback information theoretic perspectives
C. Omar, M. Johnson, T. Bretl and T. Coleman
2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008)

Shedding the weights: more with less
T. Achler, C. Omar and E. Amir
2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008)

In Progress
Ace: An Actively-Typed Programming Language and Compilation
Environment for High-Performance Computing
C. Omar and J. Aldrich
Submitted

Active Type Checking and Translation
C. Omar, N. Fulton and J. Aldrich

User-Extensible Type-Directed Syntax Tree Prediction
C. Omar, F. Cruz, S. Joshi and P. Schulam

Formal Infrastructure for Scientific Model Validation
R. Gerkin and C. Omar

Orchestrating Families of Simulations on Clusters of GPUs
C. Omar and S. Bidargaddi

Other
Okasaki: A Web-Based Purely-Functional Text Editor
C. Omar
Presentation, SIGBOVIK 2013

Open Science
C. Omar and S. Tripathy
CNBC Brain Bag, Mar. 2013

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Fall 2011

Honors

  • DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Duncan H. Lawrie Leadership Award
  • UIUC Bronze Tablet Award
  • Jeffrey P. Blahut Memorial Scholarship
  • Franz Hohn and J. P. Nash Scholarship
  • Judge's Prize, Computing Habitat Competition
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