Jonathan Saunders is a systems neuroscience PhD student at the University of Oregon. They study computational mechanisms of complex sounds in auditory cortex with Michael Wehr. Currently they are working on grounding theoretical models of speech processing in neurophysiological data, investigating the unexpected role of extracellular protein matrices in auditory cortical plasticity, and a project about the neural computation of hip-hop that you can only faintly make out as billows of smoke and vague mumbling noises coming from behind a veil of mystery. They are in the process of publishing the next generation of software for behavioral neuroscience that distributes experiments across distributed networks of single-board computers. They are looking for collaborators for a future project applying cryptographic techniques to analyze neural data. Likes: messy, intractable scientific problems; unlikely cross-disciplinary collaboration; that ancient geocities page that you can't delete because you forgot the password in 2002. Dislikes: bad science; entrenched power; people googling my old screennames.
