PhD Student Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science Department
Advisor:
Trainee Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Graduate Training Program (2010-)
Program in Neural Computation (2008-2010)
Collaborator &
Mountain Man

Los Alamos National Lab
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
Google+ Cyrus Omar
Office 9003 GHC
Research
  • Extensible type systems and programming languages
  • Structured authoring and development environments
  • Computational science and high-performance computing
  • Dynamics and computation in recurrent spiking neural circuits
  • Adaptive communication prosthetics for
  • Collaborative infrastructure for science and social change
Papers

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

Ace: Language Foundations for Scientific and High-Performance Computing
C. Omar and J. Aldrich
In preparation.

Active Type Checking and Translation
C. Omar and J. Aldrich
In preparation.

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

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)

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. P. Coleman
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 27: 1, 5-23 (2011)

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

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

TA


Head TA, Fall 2011


Fall 2006

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