Dezhe Jin's Home Page

Background

      I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Seung Lab of Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at M.I.T. In 1999, I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics from University of California at San Diego. There, I studied two-dimensional turbulent flows in the non-neutral plasma group of the Physics Department. In 2000, I moved to M.I.T., and switched my research focus to neuroscience.

      I am interested in the properties of recurrent neural networks and how they are related to biological functions. Recent projects include spiking dynamics of recurrent neural networks, adaptation induced shifts of orientation tunings in visual cortex, and others.

Expected positions

      Starting from August 15, 2004, I will be an Assitant Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics at Penn State. If you are interested in working with me on projects about how biological neural networks compute, I have a postdoctoral position available.

Publications

Neuroscience

  • Dezhe Z. Jin, "Spiking neural network for recognizing spatiotemporal sequences of spikes", Physical Review E, 69, 021905 (2004). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin, "Fast convergence of spike sequences to periodic patterns in recurrent networks", Physical Review Letters, 89, 208102 (2002). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin and H. Sebastian Seung, "Fast computation with spikes in a recurrent neural network", Physical Review E, 65, 051922 (2002). (PDF)
  • Carson C. Chow, Dezhe Z. Jin, and Alessandro Treves, "Is the world full of circles?", Journal of Vision, 2, 571 (2002). (PDF)

Physics

  • Daniel H. E. Dubin and Dezhe Z. Jin, "Collisional diffusion in a 2-dimensional point vortex gas", Physics Letters A, 284, 112 (2001). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin and Daniel H. E. Dubin, "Point vortex dynamics within a background vorticity patch", Physics of Fluids, 13, 677 (2001). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin and Daniel H. E. Dubin, "Characteristics of two-dimensional turbulence that self-organizes into vortex crystals", Physical Review Letters, 84, 1443 (2000). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin and Daniel H. E. Dubin, "Theory of vortex crystal formation in two-dimensional turbulence", Physics of Plasmas, 7, 1719 (2000). (PDF)
  • Dezhe Z. Jin and Daniel H. E. Dubin, "Regional maximum entropy theory of vortex crystal formation", Physical Review Letters, 80, 4434 (1998). (PDF)


Contact

Address: MIT E25-425, 45 Carleton St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-252-1847
Fax: 617-452-2913
Email: djin@mit.edu
Last updated March 12, 2004.