Sohan Seth, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, HIIT
Department of Information and Science,
Aalto University, Finland
sohan(dot)seth(at)hiit(dot)fi
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the statistical machine learning and bioinformatics group and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) in the Aalto University. I received my PhD degree in Aug, 2011 at the University of Florida in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where I worked with Dr. Jose C. Principe in Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory. I am from India; specifically from a place named Bally near Kolkata, West Bengal. I received my bachelor degree in 2005, in  Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. After completion of my degree I worked as a Junior Research Fellow in the same institute with Dr. Rajib Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Anutosh Chatterjee for about a year before joining UF in 2006. Here I received by master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering department in Dec. 2008. 

I am currently working on nonparametric measures of independence, dependence, conditional independence, and conditional dependence, and their applications in independent component analysis, feature selection, Granger causal inference and spike train analysis. I am also interested in designing strictly positive definite kernels on spike trains for neural decoding and hypothesis testing.

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