Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
United States Naval Academy
Contact Information:
Office Location: 597 McNair Road, Annapolis, MD 21402
Phone: (410) 293-6150
Email Address: blanco@usna.edu
Education:
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
MS, Stanford University, 2003
ScB, Brown University, 1999
Research Areas:
Neuroengineering, Machine Learning, Biomedical Signal Processing
Courses:
EE590/2: Trident Scholar Project
EE495/6: Electrical Engineering Research
EE440: Brain-Machine Learning
EE432: Digital Signal Processing
EE414: Electrical Engineering Design II
EE353: Probability, Statistics, and Linear Algebra for ECE
EE322: Signals and Systems
EC312: Applications of Cyber Security for Systems Majors
EC310: Applications of Cyber Engineering
EE302/3: Electronic Communication Systems and Digital Communications
EE301: Electrical Fundamentals and Applications
Selected Publications:
(More complete publication and patent list)
DeLozier C, Blanco JA, Rakvic R, Shey J. 2024. Maintaining symmetry between convolutional neural network accuracy and performance on an edge TPU with a focus on transfer learning adjustments. Symmetry, 16(1): 91.
Hill JE, Walker TO, Blanco JA, Ives RW, Rakvic R, Jacob B, Ransomware classification using hardware performance counters on a non-virtualized system. 2024. IEEE Access, 12: 63865-63884.
Painter MS, Silovský V, Blanco JA, Holton M, Faltusová M, Wilson R, Börger L, Psotta L, Ramos‐Almodovar F, Estrada L, Landler L, Malkemper P, Hart V, Ježek M. 2024. Development of a multisensor biologging collar and analytical techniques to describe high-resolution spatial behavior in free-ranging terrestrial mammals. Ecology and Evolution, 14: e70264.
Barth KJ, Sun J, Chia-Han C, Qiao S, Wang C, Rahimpour S, Trumpis M, Duraivel S, Dubey A, Wingel KE, Voinas A, Ferrentino B, Doyle W, Southwell DG, Haglund MM, Vestal M, Harward SC, Solzbacher F, Devore S, Devinsky O, Friedman D, Pesaran B, Sinha SR, Cogan G, Blanco JA, Viventi J. 2023. Flexible, high‐resolution cortical arrays with large coverage capture microscale high‐frequency oscillations in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia, 64(2):1910-1924.
Brown D, Walker TO, Blanco JA, Ives RW, Ngo HT, Shey J, Rakvic R. 2021. Detecting firmware modification on solid state drives via current draw analysis. Computers and Security: 102149.
Walker TO, Blanco JA, Rakvic R, Vanleer AC, Brown D, Shey J, Sinsley G, Ngo HT, Ives RW. 2020. Classifying proprietary firmware on a solid state drive using idle state current draw measurements. IEEE Access, 8(1): 31869-31881.
Blanco JA, Vanleer AC, Calibo TK, Firebaugh SL. 2019. Single-trial cognitive stress classification using portable wireless electroencephalography. Sensors, 19(3), 499: 1-16.
Shey J, Blanco JA, Walker O, Tedesso T, Ngo H, Rakvic R, Fairbanks K. 2018. Monitoring device current to characterize trim operations of solid-state drives. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 14(5): 1296-1306.
Gentili R, Jaquess K, Shuggi I, Oh H, Lo L, Tan YY, Domingues C, Blanco JA, Rietschel J, Miller M, Hatfield BD. 2017. Combined assessment of attentional reserve and cognitive effort under various levels of challenge with a dry EEG system. Psychophysiology, 55(6): 1-17.
Blanco JA, Johnson MK, Jaquess KJ, Oh H, Lo L, Gentili RJ, Hatfield BD. 2016. Quantifying cognitive workload in simulated flight using passive, dry EEG measurements. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 10(2): 373-383.
Painter MS, Blanco JA, Malkemper PE, Anderson C, Sweeney DC, Hewgley C, Cerveny J, Hart V, Topinka V, Belotti E, Burda H, Phillips JB. 2016. Use of bio-loggers to characterize red fox behavior with implications for studies of magnetic alignment responses in free-roaming animals. Animal Biotelemetry, 4(20): 1-19.
Vanleer AC, Blanco JA, Wagenaar JB, Viventi J, Contreras D, Litt B. 2016. Millimeter-scale epileptiform spike propagation patterns and their relationship to seizures. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13 (2): 1-15.
Pearce A, Wulsin D, Blanco JA, Krieger A, Litt B, Stacey WC. 2013. Temporal changes of neocortical high frequency oscillations in epilepsy. Journal of Neurophysiology, 110 (5), 1167-1179.
Viventi J, Kim DH, Vigeland L, Frechette ES, Blanco JA, Kim YS, Arvin AE, Tiruvadi VR, Hwang SW, Chamberlain AC, Wulsin DF, Davis K, Gelber C, Yaffe R, Palmer L, Van der Spiegel J, Wu J, Xiao J, Huang Y, Contreras D, Rogers JA, Litt B. 2011. Flexible, foldable, actively multiplexed high-density electrode array for mapping brain activity in vivo. Nature Neuroscience, 14(12): 1599-1605.
Blanco JA, Stead M, Krieger A, Stacey W, Maus D, Marsh E, Viventi J, Lee KH, Marsh RW, Litt B, Worrell GA. 2011. Data mining neocortical high-frequency oscillations in epilepsy and controls. Brain, 134(10): 2948-2959.
Wulsin D, Gupta J, Mani R, Blanco JA, Litt B. 2011. Modeling EEG Waveforms with semi-supervised deep belief nets: fast classification and anomaly measurement. Journal of Neural Engineering, 8(3): 1-13.
Kim DH, Viventi J, Amsden JJ, Xiao J, Vigeland L, Kim YS, Blanco JA, Contreras D, Kaplan DL, Omenetto FG, Huang Y, Hwang KC, Zakin MR, Litt B, Rogers J. 2010. Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin, conformable bio-integrated electronics. Nature Materials, 9: 511-517.
Viventi J, Kim DH, Moss J, Kim YS, Blanco JA, Annetta N, Callans D, Xiao J, Huang Y, Rogers J, Litt B. 2010. A conformal, bio-interfaced class of silicon electronics for mapping cardiac electrophysiology. Science Translational Medicine, 2(24): 24ra22.
Blanco JA, Stead M, Krieger A, Viventi J, Marsh WR, Lee KH, Worrell GA, Litt B. 2010. Unsupervised classification of high-frequency oscillations in human neocortical epilepsy and control patients. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(5): 2900-2912.
Zaghloul KA, Blanco JA, Weidemann CT, McGill K, Jaggi JL, Baltuch GH, Kahana MJ. 2009. Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards. Science, 323(5920): 1496-1499.