Jane Brooks Zurn Ph. D. Student Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University brooks at gadgetcat dot com

About:

Humans and animals make choices every day. These choices can provide insights into the operation of the mind. Objective study of these choices is the subject of Behavioral Psychology, and has applications in Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Psychology. I believe that novel tools and methods help drive scientific discovery. I also believe that scientists can acheive more when they can focus on their research goals, rather than developing and troubleshooting hardware. That's where the engineers come in :) So, as an engineer, my goal is to provide tools and support for researchers studying behavior. My background is in Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Biomedical Engineering. I have contributed towards developing new systems and tools for use in biomedical research. Applications include video-based classification methods for rodent behaviors, video tracking of rodents and fish, and analysis of streams of data that change over time (ranging from mice to human social media data). Methods of interest: Decision trees, semisupervised classification, kernels, RFID acquisition systems. See publication list for more information. If you see something from this list that gives you ideas for your technology needs, don't hesitate to email! I always enjoy discussing projects and/or suggesting others who may be able to help you!

My CV

Affiliations:

	Virginia Commonwealth University Ph. D. Student School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Yuichi Motai, Ph.D

	MED Associates, Inc. St. Albans, VT http://www.med-associates.com
	Florida Research Instruments, Inc. R&D Engineer Cocoa Beach, FL http://www.floridaresearchinstruments.com
	Intelligent Media Laboratory http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~medialab/

Data Mining Research at the University of Vermont http://www.cs.uvm.edu/research/kdd/index.shtml

Publications:

2012
	Lance Reagan Vick, Titus Soporan, Daniel Robert Lewis and Jane Brooks Zurn. Hybrid Browser / Server Collection of Streaming Social Media Data for Scalable Real-Time Analysis. Short Paper to appear, RAMSS 2012 workshop at ICWSM-12, 4 June 2012. Supporting information: TAWLK.
	Josh Pritchard, Jane Brooks Zurn. Use of RFID Tags to Capture Dynamic Behavior of Individual and Groups of Small Fish. Poster to appear, Experimental Biology, 24 April 2012. Supporting information: Josh Pritchard.
	Jane Brooks Zurn, Yuichi Motai, Scott Vento. Self-Reproduction for articulated behaviors with dual humanoid robots using on-line decision tree classification. Robotica, volume 30, issue 02, pp. 315-332. 2012. FirstView article available online 24 June 2011. Code for OLDEX - On-Line DElimiter for Context - see CODE to download. Email me for password to encrypted zip files.
2010
	Stephan G Anagnostaras, Suzanne C Wood, Tristan Shuman, Denise J Cai, Arthur D LeDuc, Karl R Zurn, J. Brooks Zurn, Jennifer R Sage, Gerald M Herrera. Automated assessment of Pavlovian conditioned freezing and shock reactivity in mice using the VideoFreeze system. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, online 30 September 2010.
2007
	J. Brooks Zurn, Xianhua Jiang, Yuichi Motai. Video-Based Tracking and Incremental Learning Applied to Rodent Behavioral Activity under Near-Infrared Illumination. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.56, no.6, pp.2804-2813, Dec. 2007. abstract
2006
	J. Brooks Zurn, W. A. Falls, Yuichi Motai. Detecting startle responses in the zebrafish using novel digital imaging techniques. Poster at Neuroscience 2006, session # 835
2005
	J. Brooks Zurn, Steven I. Dworkin, Yuichi Motai. Rodent behavior under near-infrared illumination. Poster at Neuroscience 2005, program # 923.1
	J. Frolik and J.B. Zurn, Evaluation of Tablet PCs for engineering instruction and content development, ASEE Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-September 2005.
	J. Brooks Zurn, Xianhua Jiang, Yuichi Motai. Video-Based Rodent Activity Measurement Using Near-Infrared Illumination. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC), 2005. copyright information
	J. Brooks Zurn, Drew Hohmann, Steven I. Dworkin, Yuichi Motai. A Real-Time Rodent Tracking System for Both Light and Dark Cycle Behavior Analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2005.
	J. Brooks Zurn, Steven I. Dworkin, Yuichi Motai. Influence of infrared illumination on the learning and activity behavior of rats. Poster at the Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR), 2005.
2004
	Jeff Frolik, J. Brooks Zurn. Evaluation of Tablet PCs for engineering instruction and content development. Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2004 Annual Conference and Exposition. 2004.

Other Links:

	Eklectik Zurn
	Gmail

  Some of my photographs (for computer desktop backgrounds)

last updated 4/12/12