Julie Dethier
Ph.D. candidate - Research fellow F.R.S.-FNRS
Research Unit "Systems and Modeling"
Office
Montefiore Institute (Parking 32), R 15
Grande Traverse, 10
B-4000 Liège (Sart-Tilman)
Belgium
Phone: +32 (0) 4 366 2831
E-mail: jdethier@ulg.ac.be
Contact
Education
2011 - present: Research fellow F.R.S.-FNRS, Ph.D. research at ULg
2010 - 2011: Master of Science in Bioengineering, Stanford University
Laboratory work in the Brains in Silicon lab
2008 - 2010: Master of Applied Sciences in Biomedical Engineering (summa cum laude),
2005 - 2008: Bachelor of Applied Sciences, University of Liège
Research interests
For my Ph.D. research at the University of Liège under the supervision of Prof. R. Sepulchre, my foccus of interest is on narrowing the gap between computational neuroscience and neuroengineering in multichannel recording of neural signals. This research project aims at developing a probabilistic framework to capture ensemble coding and validate it in specific neuroprosthetics and neurophysiological benchmark applications studied in collaboration with partner laboratories.
For my master thesis, I worked on the realization of a multi-channel recording system for neural applications at imec, Leuven. The read-out conditioned and digitized eight channels and provides the digitized output to an existing TI MSP430 based microprocessor system for wired or wireless data handling. Advisor: Prof J. Destiné [pdf]
Publications
Conference
J. Dethier, P. Nuyujukian, C. Eliasmith, T. Stewart, S.A. Elassaad, K.V. Shenoy, and K. Boahen, A brain-machine interface operating with a real-time spiking neural network control algorithm, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, Curran Associates, Inc., pp. XX-YY, 2012 [pdf]
J. Dethier, V. Gilja, VP. Nuyujukian, S.A. Elassaad, K.V. Shenoy, and K. Boahen, Spiking neural network decoder for brain-machine interfaces, IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, IEEE Press, , pp. 396-399, 2011 [pdf]
Thesis
Master thesis: Design for a multi-channel recording and stimulation device, June 2010 Advisor: Prof J. Destiné [pdf]
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