David Carlson | Scholars@Duke

David Carlson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2017
Assistant Professor - Track V in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Basic Science Departments 2017
Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Institutes and Centers 2017

Contact Information

North Pavilion 8047, 2400 Pratt St., Durham, NC 27705
david.carlson@duke.edu (757) 784-6919

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Duke University 2015
Recognition
In the News
- JAN 9, 2018 Duke Research Blog
  
  David Carlson: Engineering and Machine Learning for Better Medicine
- AUG 24, 2017 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  David Carlson: Generating Scientific Understanding from Machine Learning
Research
Selected Grants
- Enabling Stress Resistance awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Conference Papers
  - Li, Y, Min, MR, Shen, D, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Video Generation From Text." 2018. Link to Item
  - Pakman, A, Gilboa, D, Carlson, D, and Paninski, L. "Stochastic Bouncy Particle Sampler." 2017.
  - Carlson, DE, Stinson, P, Pakman, A, and Paninski, L. "Partition functions from rao-blackwellized tempered sampling." January 1, 2016.
  - Li, C, Chen, C, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Preconditioned stochastic gradient langevin dynamics for deep neural networks." January 1, 2016.
  - Carlson, D, Cevher, V, and Carin, L. "Stochastic spectral descent for restricted boltzmann machines." January 1, 2015.
  - Carlson, DE, Collins, E, Hsieh, YP, Carin, L, and Cevher, V. "Preconditioned spectral descent for deep learning." January 1, 2015.
  - Gan, Z, Chen, C, Henao, R, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Scalable deep Poisson factor analysis for topic modeling." January 1, 2015.
  - Gan, Z, Henao, R, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Learning deep sigmoid belief networks with data augmentation." January 1, 2015.
  - Gan, Z, Li, C, Henao, R, Carlson, DE, and Carin, L. "Deep Temporal Sigmoid Belief Networks for Sequence Modeling." 2015.
  - Ulrich, K, Carlson, DE, Dzirasa, K, and Carin, L. "GP kernels for cross-spectrum analysis." January 1, 2015.
  - Carlson, DE, Borg, JS, Dzirasa, K, and Carin, L. "On the relationship between LFP & spiking data." January 1, 2014.
  - Carlson, DE, Borg, JS, Dzirasa, K, and Carin, L. "On the relations of LFPs & Neural Spike Trains." 2014.
  - Hu, C, Ryu, E, Carlson, D, Wang, Y, and Carin, L. "Latent Gaussian models for topic modeling." January 1, 2014.
  - Ulrich, K, Carlson, DE, Lian, W, Borg, JS, Dzirasa, K, and Carin, L. "Analysis of brain states from multi-region LFP time-series." January 1, 2014.
- Journal Articles
  - Hultman, R, Ulrich, K, Sachs, BD, Blount, C, Carlson, DE, Ndubuizu, N, Bagot, RC, Parise, EM, Vu, M-AT, Gallagher, NM, Wang, J, Silva, AJ, Deisseroth, K, Mague, SD, Caron, MG, Nestler, EJ, Carin, L, and Dzirasa, K. "Brain-wide Electrical Spatiotemporal Dynamics Encode Depression Vulnerability." Cell 173, no. 1 (March 2018): 166-180.e14. Full Text
  - Vu, M-AT, Adalı, T, Ba, D, Buzsáki, G, Carlson, D, Heller, K, Liston, C, Rudin, C, Sohal, VS, Widge, AS, Mayberg, HS, Sapiro, G, and Dzirasa, K. "A Shared Vision for Machine Learning in Neuroscience." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 38, no. 7 (February 2018): 1601-1607. Full Text
  - Carlson, D, David, LK, Gallagher, NM, Vu, M-AT, Shirley, M, Hultman, R, Wang, J, Burrus, C, McClung, CA, Kumar, S, Carin, L, Mague, SD, and Dzirasa, K. "Dynamically Timed Stimulation of Corticolimbic Circuitry Activates a Stress-Compensatory Pathway." Biological psychiatry 82, no. 12 (December 2017): 904-913. Full Text
  - Gallagher, N, Ulrich, KR, Talbot, A, Dzirasa, K, Carin, L, and Carlson, DE. "Cross-Spectral Factor Analysis." Edited by I Guyon, UV Luxburg, S Bengio, HM Wallach, R Fergus, SVN Vishwanathan, and R Garnett. NIPS (2017): 6845-6855.
  - Lee, J, Carlson, D, Shokri, H, Yao, W, Goetz, G, Hagen, E, Batty, E, Chichilnisky, EJ, Einevoll, G, and Paninski, L. "YASS: Yet Another Spike Sorter." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2017). (Academic Article)
  - Li, Y, Murias, M, Major, S, Dawson, G, Dzirasa, K, Carin, L, and Carlson, DE. "Targeting EEG/LFP Synchrony with Neural Nets." Edited by I Guyon, UV Luxburg, S Bengio, HM Wallach, R Fergus, SVN Vishwanathan, and R Garnett. NIPS (2017): 4623-4633.
  - Hultman, R, Mague, SD, Li, Q, Katz, BM, Michel, N, Lin, L, Wang, J, David, LK, Blount, C, Chandy, R, Carlson, D, Ulrich, K, Carin, L, Dunson, D, Kumar, S, Deisseroth, K, Moore, SD, and Dzirasa, K. "Dysregulation of Prefrontal Cortex-Mediated Slow-Evolving Limbic Dynamics Drives Stress-Induced Emotional Pathology." Neuron 91, no. 2 (July 2016): 439-452. Full Text
  - Merel, J, Carlson, D, Paninski, L, and Cunningham, JP. "Neuroprosthetic Decoder Training as Imitation Learning." PLoS computational biology 12, no. 5 (May 18, 2016): e1004948-. Full Text
  - Carlson, D, Hsieh, Y-P, Collins, E, Carin, L, and Cevher, V. "Stochastic Spectral Descent for Discrete Graphical Models." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 10, no. 2 (March 2016): 296-311. Full Text
  - Gan, Z, Li, C, Henao, R, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Deep temporal sigmoid belief networks for sequence modeling." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2015-January (January 1, 2015): 2467-2475.
  - Liming Wang, , Carlson, DE, Rodrigues, MRD, Calderbank, R, and Carin, L. "A Bregman Matrix and the Gradient of Mutual Information for Vector Poisson and Gaussian Channels." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60, no. 5 (May 2014): 2611-2629. Full Text
  - Carlson, DE, Vogelstein, JT, Qisong Wu, , Wenzhao Lian, , Mingyuan Zhou, , Stoetzner, CR, Kipke, D, Weber, D, Dunson, DB, and Carin, L. "Multichannel electrophysiological spike sorting via joint dictionary learning and mixture modeling." IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 61, no. 1 (January 2014): 41-54. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Carlson, DE, Vogelstein, JT, Wu, Q, Lian, W, Zhou, M, Stoetzner, CR, Kipke, D, Weber, D, Dunson, DB, and Carin, L. "Multichannel electrophysiological spike sorting via joint dictionary learning and mixture modeling." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 61, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 41-54. Full Text
  - Karumbaiah, L, Saxena, T, Carlson, D, Patil, K, Patkar, R, Gaupp, EA, Betancur, M, Stanley, GB, Carin, L, and Bellamkonda, RV. "Relationship between intracortical electrode design and chronic recording function." Biomaterials 34, no. 33 (November 2013): 8061-8074. Full Text Link to Item
  - Carlson, D, Rao, V, Vogelstein, J, and Carin, L. "Real-time inference for a gamma process model of neural spiking." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (January 1, 2013).
  - Wang, L, Carlson, D, Rodrigues, MD, Wilcox, D, Calderbank, R, and Carin, L. "Designed measurements for vector count data." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (January 1, 2013).
  - Chen, M, Carlson, D, Zaas, A, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, Hero, A, Lucas, J, and Carin, L. "Detection of viruses via statistical gene expression analysis." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 58, no. 3 (March 2011): 468-479. Full Text Link to Item
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