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Joshua I Glaser is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, holding dual appointments in the Department of Neurology (Feinberg School of Medicine) and the McCormick School of Engineering. His research focuses on computational neuroscience, particularly the neural control of movement and interpretable machine learning. Glaser earned a BS in Physics and Math from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2011), a PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University (2018), and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.
Research Interests: Glaser’s lab develops interpretable machine learning tools to understand neural computations underlying movement and behavior. Key areas include neural population interactions, flexible behavior control, and disease-related neural dynamics. Projects include interpretable dimensionality reduction, decoding models linking neural activity to behavior, and multi-population neural interaction analysis.
Lab & Collaborations: The Glaser Lab collaborates with experimental neuroscientists and statisticians. Current projects involve developing novel methods for analyzing neural data while maintaining interpretability. They host a team of PhD, master’s, and undergraduate students.
Grants & Awards: While no specific awards are listed, his work reflects sustained funding in computational neuroscience and engineering.
Code & Resources: Lab-developed tools include Neural_Decoding (machine learning for neural decoding), SSM (state-space models), and Sparse Component Analysis (interpretable latent factor analysis). These are publicly available on GitHub.
