Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 2015
• Recognition
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  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
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  Selected Grants

  • Network Dynamics of Negative and Positive Valence Systems in Decision Making awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2023
  • The neurophysiology of impulsive sensation seeking awarded by University of Pittsburgh 2018 - 2020
  • Enabling Stress Resistance awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2018
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Zheng, T, Bergin, MH, Johnson, KK, Tripathi, SN, Shirodkar, S, Landis, MS, Sutaria, R, and Carlson, DE. "Field evaluation of low-cost particulate matter sensors in high-and low-concentration environments." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11, no. 8 (August 22, 2018): 4823-4846.  Full Text
    • Goldstein, BA, Carlson, D, and Bhavsar, NA. "Subject Matter Knowledge in the Age of Big Data and Machine Learning." Jama Network Open 1, no. 4 (August 3, 2018): e181568-null.  Full Text
    • 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, JH, 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-December (January 1, 2017): 4003-4013.
    • 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-null.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Carlson, D, Hsieh, YP, Collins, E, Carin, L, and Cevher, V. "Stochastic Spectral Descent for Discrete Graphical Models." Ieee Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing 10, no. 2 (March 1, 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.
    • 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
    • Wang, L, 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 (January 1, 2014): 2611-2629.  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
    • 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 Transactions on Bio Medical Engineering 58, no. 3 (March 2011): 468-479.  Full Text
    • 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 & Mixture Modeling."  Link to Item

  • Conference Papers

    • Liang, K, Gregory, C, Diallo, SO, Roe, K, Heilmann, G, Carin, L, Carlson, D, Spell, G, and Sigman, J. "Automatic threat recognition of prohibited items at aviation checkpoint with x-ray imaging: a deep learning approach." Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) III. April 15, 2018 - April 19, 2018.: SPIE, April 27, 2018.  Full Text
    • Li, Y, Min, MR, Shen, D, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Video generation from text." January 1, 2018.
    • Gallagher, NM, Ulrich, K, Talbot, A, Dzirasa, K, Carin, L, and Carlson, DE. "Cross-spectral factor analysis." January 1, 2017.
    • Li, Y, Murias, M, Major, S, Dawson, G, Dzirasa, K, Carin, L, and Carlson, DE. "Targeting EEG/LFP synchrony with neural nets." January 1, 2017.
    • Pakman, A, Gilboa, D, Carlson, D, and Paninski, L. "Stochastic bouncy particle sampler." January 1, 2017.
    • Carlson, DE, Stinson, P, Pakman, A, and Paninski, L. "Partition functions from rao-blackwellized tempered sampling." January 1, 2016.  Open Access Copy
    • Li, C, Chen, C, Carlson, D, and Carin, L. "Preconditioned stochastic gradient langevin dynamics for deep neural networks." January 1, 2016.
    • Song, Z, Henao, R, Carlson, DE, and Carin, L. "Learning Sigmoid Belief Networks via Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization." JMLR.org, 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.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering 2019
  • CEE 692: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering 2018
  • ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2018

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