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The behaviors I study include walking and the postural control of standing in humans and swimming in lampreys. My emphasis is on system-level models that illuminate key aspects of neural control and the use of empirical data to develop and test such models.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cornell University, Applied Mathematics, May 1990

Thesis title: Three Problems from the Mathematics of Neural Oscillations Thesis adviser: Philip J. Holmes

M.S., Cornell University, Applied Mathematics, January 1988 B.Math., University of Minnesota, Mathematics, August 1984

• Neural control of movement