Zoran Nenadic

Education	D.Sc. Systems Science and Mathematics -- August 2001
	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
	Dissertation: Signal Processing, Computation and Estimation in Biological Neural Networks
	Advisor: Professor Bijoy K. Ghosh
	M.S. Systems Science and Mathematics -- May 1998
	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
	Diploma, Control Engineering -- May 1995
	UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
	Thesis: On Stability of Linear Systems With Delayed State Defined Over Finite Time Interval
	Advisor: Professor Dragutin Debeljkovic
Professional	DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Experience	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA
	Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2001 -- present
	CENTER FOR BIOCYBERNETICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
	Research Assistant, October 1999 -- October 2001
	SEVER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
	Research Assistant, August 1996 -- August 2001
	DEPARTMENT OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
	Instructor, January 2000 -- August 2001
Research	Signal processing and control in bio-systems, including
Interests	control algorithms for movable neuro-probes
	information decoding from neural data
	modeling and parameter estimation in biological systems
	brain machine interfaces
Teaching	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, MO
Experience
Instructor	SSMa326 Probability and Statistics for Engineers (SU00 SU01)
	SSM 490A Systems Engineering Laboratory (SP01) SSM 202 Introduction to Systems Science and Mathematics (FL00) SSM 581 Instruments and Components for Automatic Control (SP00) Duties included organizing and preparing lecture notes, teaching, assigning homeworks, projects and exams.
Supervised	Ka-Ling Chan, Masters Thesis, and Sheilah B. Gleason, Senior Design Project,
Students	both at the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics.
Teaching	EEb431 Control Systems I (SP98 SP99 FL99 FL00)
Assistant	SSM 502 Mathematics of Modern Engineering II (SP98 SP99 SP00)
	EE 551 Probability and Stochastic Processes (FL98 FL99) SSM 501 Mathematics of Modern Engineering I (FL97 FL98 FL99) SSM 326 Probability and Statistics for Engineering (SU98 SU99) Duties included grading homework assignments, organizing and conducting help sessions and proctoring exams.
Consultant	EE431 Control Systems I (SP00)
	a Department of Systems Science and Mathematics b Department of Electrical Engineering
Awards and	Research Assistantship, Washington University, Department of Systems Science
Fellowships	and Mathematics, 1996 - 2001
	Research Fellowship, Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Science and Technology, 1995 - 1996
	Outstanding Student Award, University of Belgrade, School of Mechanical Engineering, 1995
Refereeing	IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Activity
Professional	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Membership	The Mathematical Association of America
	Society for Neuroscience
Immigration	Permanent Resident of the United States of America
Status
Publications
Dissertations	Z. Nenadic. Signal Processing, Computation and Estimation in Biological Neural Networks.
	D.Sc. Dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2001. Z. Nenadic. On Stability of Linear Systems With Delayed State Defined Over Finite Time Interval. Diploma Thesis, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 1995.
Journal Articles	Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick, "Autonomous electrode positioning for optimization of extracellular recordings," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., submitted.
	J.G. Cham, E.A. Branchaud, Z. Nenadic, B. Greger, R.A. Andersen, and J.W. Burdick, "Semi-chronic motorized microdrive and control algorithm for autonomously isolating, optimizing and maintaining extracellular action potential," J. Neurophysiol., 93: 603--608, 2005. Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick, "Spike detection using the continuous wavelet transform," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 52, pp. 74--87, 2005. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Encoding and decoding of analog signals with a population of neurons," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 39(2-3), pp. 181--196, 2004. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Propagating waves in visual cortex: A large-scale model of turtle visual cortex," J. Comp. Neurosci., vol. 14, pp. 161--184, 2003. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P.S. Ulinski, "Modeling and estimation problems in the turtle visual cortex," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 49, pp. 753--762, 2002. Z. Nenadic, C.H. Anderson, and B.K. Ghosh, "Control of arm movement using population of neurons," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 35, pp. 1261--1269, 2002. Z. Nenadic, B. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Propagating waves in visual cortex: A large scale model of turtle visual cortex," Math. Comput. Modelling, vol. 35, pp. 743--749, 2002. Z. Nenadic and B. K. Ghosh, "Signal processing and control problems in the brain," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 21, pp. 28--41, 2001. M.P. Lazarevic, D.L. Debeljkovic, Z.L. Nenadic, and S.A. Milinkovic, "Finite-time stability of delayed systems," IMA J. Math. Control Inform., vol. 17, pp. 101--109, 2000.
Refereed Conference Papers	Z. Nenadic, D.S. Rizzuto, R.A. Andersen, and J.W. Burdick, "Discriminant based feature selection with information theoretic objective," submitted, 2005.
	R.A. Andersen, J.W. Burdick, S. Musallam, H. Scherberger, B. Pesaran, D. Meeker, B.D. Corneil, I. Fineman, Z. Nenadic, E. Branchaud, J.G. Cham, B. Greger, Y.C. Tai, and M.M. Mojarradi, "Recording advances for neural prosthetics," in Proc. of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 5352--5355, 2004. B.K. Ghosh and Z. Nenadic, "Position and velocity estimation in the visual cortex," in Proc. of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, pp. 2361--2366, 2002. Z. Nenadic, B.K. Ghosh, and P.S. Ulinski, "Large scale simulation for velocity prediction in the turtle visual cortex," in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 405--410, 2001. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Computation with biological neurons," in Proc. of the 2001 American Control Conference, vol. 1, pp. 257--262, 2001. A.D. Polpitiya, Z. Nenadic, and B.K. Ghosh, "Optimal filtering in biological neural networks," in Proc. of the 2001 American Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 3539--3542, 2001. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Control of arm movement using population of neurons," in Proc. of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 2, pp. 1776--1781, 2000. Z. Nenadic, B. Ghosh, and P. Ulinski, "Spatiotemporal dynamics in a model of turtle visual cortex," Neurocomputing, vol. 32-33, pp. 479--486, 2000. Z. Nenadic and B.K. Ghosh, "Dynamic-control problems with on/off cells," in Proc. of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 399--404, 1999 D.Lj. Debeljkovic, S.A. Milinkovic, M.B. Jovanovic, and Z.Lj. Nenadic, "On the stability of linear systems with delayed state defined over finite time interval," in Proc. 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol.3, pp. 2771--2772, 1997. D.Lj. Debeljkovic, Z.Lj. Nenadic, Dj. Koruga, and S.A. Milinkovic, "On practical stability of time delay systems: New results," in Proc. of the 2nd Asian Control Conference, vol III. pp. 543--546, 1997. Z.Lj. Nenadic, D.Lj. Debeljkovic and, S.A. Milinkovic, "On practical stability of time delay systems," in Proc. American Control Conference, vol. 5, pp. 3235--3236, 1997.
Abstracts	Z. Nenadic and J.W. Burdick, "Robust unsupervised detection of action potentials using the wavelet transform," Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 279.1, 2003. E.A. Branchaud, Z. Nenadic, D. Meeker, J. Cham, R.A. Andersen, and J.W. Burdick, "Movable electrodes for autonomous cell isolation and tracking: algorithm, experiments and hardware," Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 607.16, 2003.