Tim Machado 
Improving the performance of nonnegative spike train deconvolution
methods on nonstationary data

Alejandro Ramirez
Optimal stimulus design for L2/3 neurons of rat barrel cortex.

Patrick Kaifosh 
Correcting for motion artifacts occurring during in vivo calcium
imaging

Michael Agne 
Cone finding via the Wang-Landau algorithm for adaptive simulated
tempering

Ying Liu 
Localized matrix decomposition for subunit finding

Nicholas Bartlett
A dual decomposition approach to estimation of two dimensional firing
rate maps

Brian DePasquale
Using the subspace method for system identification with Poisson
process data observations

Ann Kennedy 
Parameter estimation and smoothness constraints in factor analysis of
neural data

Mariano Gabitto
Estimating receptive fields combining information from many neurons
via group LASSO