Austin Brockmeier

Biography

I was a research fellow at the National Centre for Text Mining within the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. My mentor was Prof. Sophia Ananiadou. Before that, I was at the University of Liverpool, where my mentor was Prof. John (Yannis) Goulermas. At both universities, I contributed to a project funded by the UK's Medical Research Council that developed techniques that can assist the literature screening stage of systematic reviews of literature, with public health as the main focus.

I received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. My advisor was Prof. Jose C. Principe. As a Ph.D. student I developed algorithms for extracting relevant patterns from signals and applied them to the analysis of multiscale neural data, both action potential timings (spike trains) and electrical potentials (local field potential and EEG recordings). We collaborated with researchers on sensory processing and brain machine interfacing.

I received a B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) at its Omaha campus, having received the Walter Scott, Jr. Scholarship and the University of Nebraska Regents Scholarship. In Omaha, UNL's engineering departments are housed within the Peter Kiewit Institute, while my second major in mathematics and minor in computer science are from the respective departments at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

I graduated from Cozad High School, and was honored to have received the Rick Wilson Undergraduate Scholarship. Among many activities, one of the most formative was my participation in the Nebraska Academic Decathlon.