Dr. Kathleen Hoffman, Department of Biological Sciences.

Dr. Kathleen Hoffman, Department of Biological Sciences.

Dr. Hoffman and an undergraduate student supervised by Dr. Hoffman will perform the research for the project “Computational Mechanisms for State-Driven Active Sensing” at UMBC. The overall goal of the project is to understand sensing and information gathering behaviors through experiments with electric fish. The experiments will be conducted at partner institutions (Johns Hopkins University and New Jersey Institute of Technology), and Dr. Hoffman’s team at UMBC will focus on advanced time-series analysis of experimental data for all three specific aims. The deliverables will be analysis of time-series data for identifying causal relationships among neural and behavioral signals, analysis of time-series data for detecting changes in neural and behavioral data, and informing control-theoretic models of the observed behaviors (developed at UMN).