
Simon Kornblith : Curriculum Vitae
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010-)
- Ph.D. Candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
California Institute of Technology (2006-2010)
- B.S., Engineering and Applied Sciences (Computation and Neural Systems) and History and Philosophy of Science
Awards and Honors
- Walle Nauta Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2013)
- Swartz Travel Award, Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain (2011)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2010)
- MIT Norman B. Leventhal Presidential Fellow (2010)
- Caltech Upper Class Merit Award (2009)
- Caltech Carnation Scholarship (2008)
- Presidential Scholar Candidate (2006)
Publications
Kornblith, S., Buschman, T. J., and Miller, E. K. (2015). Stimulus load and oscillatory activity in higher cortex. Cerebral Cortex, in press.
Mulliken, G. H., Bichot, N. P., Ghadooshahy, A., Sharma, J., Kornblith, S., Philcock, M., and Desimone, R. (2015). Custom-fit radiolucent cranial implants for neurophysiological recording and stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 241, 146–154. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.12.011
Kornblith, S., Cheng, X., Ohayon, S., and Tsao, D. (2013). A network for scene processing in the macaque temporal lobe. Neuron, 79, 766-781. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.06.015
Mormann, F., Dubois, J., Kornblith, S., Milosavljevic, M., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Tsuchiya, N., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Adolphs, R., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2011). A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 14, 1247-1249. doi:10.1038/nn.2899
Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Quiroga, R. Q., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2008). Latency and selectivity of single neurons indicate hierarchical processing in the human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 8865-8872. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1640-08.2008
Conference Presentations
Kornblith, S. (2015, June 26). JLD: Saving Julia objects to the disk in HDF5 format. Presented at JuliaCon, Cambridge, MA.
Kornblith, S. (2015, June 25). L1 regularized regression. Presented at JuliaCon, Cambridge, MA.
Kornblith, S., Buschman, T. J., and Miller, E. K. (2014, November 19). Modulation of power and synchrony of local field potentials by working memory load in the macaque. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
Rajimehr, R., Kornblith, S., and Desimone, R. (2013, November 13). Functional parcellation of human visual cortex. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Kornblith, S., Cheng, X., and Tsao, D. Y. (2011, November 14). Electrophysiological recordings and combined fMRI and microstimulation in the macaque occipitotemporal place area. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
Cheng, X., Kornblith, S., and Tsao, D. Y. (2011, November 14). Responses of the macaque occipitotemporal place area to systematically varied scene stimuli. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
Kornblith, S., Mormann, F., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2011, November 10). Single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex preferentially respond to scenes. Poster presented at Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain, New York, NY.
Kornblith, S. and Tsao, D. Y. (2010, November 14). A place area in the macaque occipitotemporal sulcus localized by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Nanosymposium talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Polosecki, P., Kornblith, S., Moeller, S., Tsao, D. Y., and Freiwald, W. A. (2010, November 16). Mapping macaque and human face processing networks with dynamic stimuli. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Grimaldi, P., Kornblith, S., Wilke, M., Freiwald, W. A., and Tsao, D. Y. (2010, November 16). Neural substrates of face perception in the rhesus monkey. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Mormann, F., Dubois, J., Kornblith, S., Milosavljevic, M., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Tsuchiya, N., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Adolphs, R., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2010, June 9). A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Poster presented at Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.
Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Quiroga, R. Q., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Koch, C., and Fried, I. (2008, November 15). Single neurons in the human MTL during visual working memory and rapid series visual presentation. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
Kornblith, S., Owens, T., and Krishnan, S. (2008, February 25). Extending Zotero translators and plug-ins. Presented at code4lib, Portland, Oregon.
Other
D’Arcus, B., Kornblith, S., Bennett, F., and Zelle, R. (2007-2012). Citation Style Language (CSL) schema for describing bibliographic and citation formatting.
Research Experience
Miller Lab (2011-) - Functional imaging and single unit electrophysiology
Tsao Lab (2009-2011) - Functional imaging and single unit electrophysiology
Koch Lab (2007-2009) - Analysis of single neuron recording data from behaving human subjects with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy
Software
I am a senior developer for Zotero and a Julia committer. I also maintain and contribute to many Julia packages. See my GitHub page.

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