Carl Gold

Carl Gold
Division of Biology, 216-76 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 carlgcaltech.edu	Work: 626-395-8965 Mobile: 323-377-5676

Education

California Institute of Technology	Winter, 2006
PhD, Computation and Neural Systems Thesis: Modeling Extracellular Action Potentials: Waveforms, Detectability and Sampling Bias Advisor: Christof Koch

King's College London	August, 2000
MSc, Neural Networks & Information Processing With Distinction MSc Thesis: Bayesian Methods for Support Vector Machines

New York University	August, 1999
MS, Computer Science

Stanford University	June, 1995
BS, Electrical Engineering BA, History ΤΒΠ Engineering Honor Society

Computational Neuroscience (CNS) 2006. Poster + Tutorial: Using Extracellular Action Potential Recordings to Tune Compartmental Models. (July 19th, Afternoon session)
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne), 2006. Poster: Extracellular Electrode Detection Range and Sampling Bias for Cat Visual Cortex
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2005. Talk: Fast Bayesian Support Vector Machine Parameter Tuning with the Nyström Method
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne), 2005. Poster: Model of Single Unit Extracellular Potentials Describes Waveforms of CA1 Neurons Recorded In Vivo
Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Poster: Model of Extracellular Potential Illustrates Factors Contributing to the Waveform of Single Unit Recordings In Vivo
IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering 2003. Talk: FX Trading via Recurrent Reinforcement Learning
Society For Neuroscience, 2003. Poster: Line Source Approximation Predicts Extracellular Voltage For CA1 Neurons Recorded In Vivo

Ruth L Kirchstein NRSA Individual Fellowship, 2004-2006. (MH070144-01A1)

2004	Teaching Assistant, Vision: From Computational Theory to Neuronal Mechanisms,
	Created problem set solution keys.


2003	Teaching Assistant, Computational Neuroscience
	Lectured on compartmental modeling techniques.


2002	Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computation and Neural Systems

1/02 - present	Business Analyst & Design Consultant, Home Box Office (HBO), Los Angeles
	Designed object oriented model for royalties analysis and payment system


6/01 - 11/01	Software Engineering Consultant, Notepad Computing, Pasadena CA
	Participated in development of novel Handwriting Recognition algorithms Designed and implemented C++ classes to interface with handwriting database


1/97 - 9/99	Programmer/Analyst, Home Box Office (HBO), New York
	Lead Programmer and Design Assistant for remote, persistent object framework for the management of legal contracts Lead programmer responsible for proprietary, mission critical scheduling applications Developed in-house messaging, UI and persistence frameworks for Mac App C++


1/96 - 12/96	Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Trailer Parc Technologies, San Francisco
	Invented algorithms to enhance layout and design capabilities of HTML Founded Trailer Parc Technologies, Inc. to create and market HTML authoring applications (first product shipped in November, 1996) Acted as board member, Chief Technology Officer, and Windows Programmer.