Journal Articles by Y. Zhou


A. A. Lazar, E. A. Pnevmatikakis, and Y. Zhou
The Power of Connectivity: Identity Preserving Transformations on Visual Streams in the Spike Domain
Neural Networks , Volume 44 , pp. 22-35 , 2013
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Massively Parallel Neural Encoding and Decoding of Visual Stimuli
Neural Networks , Volume 32 , pp. 303-312 , August 2012 , Special Issue: IJCNN 2011
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A. A. Lazar, E. A. Pnevmatikakis, and Y. Zhou
Encoding Natural Scenes with Neural Circuits with Random Thresholds
Vision Research , Volume 50 , Number 22 , pp. 2200-2212 , October 2010 , Special Issue on Mathematical Models of Visual Coding
Keywords:- neural encoding of natural scenes   receptive fields   neural circuits with random thresholds   reconstruction of visual stimuli   reproducing kernel hilbert spaces   regularization.
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Sparse Identification of Contrast Gain Control in the Fruit Fly Photoreceptor and Amacrine Cell Layer
The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience , Volume 10 , Number 3 , Springer Open , February 2020
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
FlyBrainLab: Accelerating the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era
bioRxiv , June 2020
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Sparse Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli
The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience , Volume 8 , Number 2 , pp. 1-40 , January 2018
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Reconstructing Natural Visual Scenes from Spike Times
Proceedings of the IEEE , Volume 102 , Number 10 , pp. 1500-1519 , October 2014 , (invited paper)
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A. A. Lazar, Y. B. Slutskiy, and Y. Zhou
Massively Parallel Neural Circuits for Stereoscopic Color Vision: Encoding, Decoding and Identification
Neural Networks , Volume 63 , pp. 254-271 , March 2015
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Sparse Identification of Contrast Gain Control in the Fruit Fly Photoreceptor and Amacrine Cell Layer
Neurons and Cognition, arXiv , October 2019
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Accelerating with FlyBrainLab the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain in the Connectomic and Synaptomic Era
eLife , February 2021
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Volterra Dendritic Stimulus Processors and Biophysical Spike Generators with Intrinsic Noise Sources
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience , Volume 8 , Number 95 , pp. 1-24 , September 2014
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Identifying Multisensory Dendritic Stimulus Processors
IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications , Volume 2 , Number 2 , pp. 183-198 , December 2016 , Special Issue on Biological Applications of Information Theory in Honor of Claude Shannon's Centennial, Part II (invited paper)
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
A Motion Detection Algorithm Using Local Phase Information
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience , Volume 2016, Article ID 7915245 , January 2016
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Modeling and Characterization of Pure and Odorant Mixture Processing in the Drosophila Mushroom Body Calyx
Frontiers in Physiology: Invertebrate Physiology , Volume 15 , Research Topic: Invertebrate Brains as Model Systems for Learning, Memory, and Recall: Development, Anatomy and Function of Memory Systems , October 2024
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, and Y. Zhou
Divisive Normalization Circuits Faithfully Represent Auditory and Visual Stimuli
bioRxiv , September 2022
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
A Programmable Ontology Encompassing the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics , June 2022
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
A Programmable Ontology Encompassing the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain
bioRxiv , December 2021
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Divisive Normalization Processors in the Early Visual System of the Drosophila Brain
Biological Cybernetics , Springer, Special Issue: What can Computer Vision learn from Visual Neuroscience? , September 2023
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Mushroom Body
bioRxiv , September 2022
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Odorant Mixture Separation in Drosophila Early Olfactory System
bioRxiv , September 2022
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Antennal Lobe
bioRxiv , September 2022
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N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, A. Tomkins, Y. Zhou, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, Y.-C. Huang, C.-T. Wang, M. K. Turkcan, T. Liu, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: From Structure to Function
bioRxiv , Volume 580290 , March 2019
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M. Yang, C.-H. Yeh, Y. Zhou, J. P. Cerqueira, A. A. Lazar, and M. Seok
Design of an Always-On Deep Neural Network Based 1 μW Voice Activity Detector Aided with a Customized Software Model for Analog Feature Extraction
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits , Volume 54 , Number 6 , IEEE , pp. 1764-1777 , June 2019
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Conference Papers


A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Realizing Video Time Decoding Machines with Recurrent Neural Networks
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , July 31 - August 5 , 2011 , San Jose, CA
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Divisive Normalization Processing Underlies Odorant Mixture Representation in the Mushroom Body Calyx
Neuroscience 2024 , Society of Neuroscience , October 5 - 9 , 2024 , Chicago, IL
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A. A. Lazar, S. Shukla, and Y. Zhou
Modeling Small Object Detection of Drosophila Lobula Circuits with Divisive Normalization Processors
Neuroscience 2024 , Society for Neuroscience , October 5 - 9 , 2024 , Chicago, IL
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
FlyBrainLab: A Complete Programming Environment for Discovering the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain
Neuroinformatics Assembly 2021 , April 2021
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
FlyBrainLab: Interactive Computing in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era
Jupytercon , October 2020
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
FlyBrainLab: An Interactive Computing Platform for Exploring the Drosophila Brain
PyData Global , November 2020
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Interrogating the Functional Logic of Drosophila Brain Circuits at Single-Synapse Scale
Society of Neuroscience , November 8-11 , 2021 , Chicago, IL
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Generating Executable Mushroom Body and Lateral Horn Circuits from the Hemibrain Dataset with FlyBrainLab
BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P105 , July 2020
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Comparing Drosophila Neural Circuit Models with FlyBrainLab
BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P112 , July 2020
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Untangling the Graph Structure of Drosophila Brain Datasets with Open Source FlyBrainLab Utility Libraries
Society of Neuroscience , November 8-11 , 2021 , Chicago, IL
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
Comparative Study of Fruit Fly Brain Circuit Models with FlyBrainLab
neuromatch 3.0 , October 2020
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, and Y. Zhou
Functional Identification of the Odorant Transduction Process of Drosophila Olfactory Sensory Neurons
BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P225 , July 2020
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A. A. Lazar, M. K. Turkcan, and Y. Zhou
NeuroNLP Gene Match—An Open Source Genetic Data Visualizer and Explorer
Neurobiology of Drosophila , October 5-8 , 2021 , (virtual meeting)
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B. Y. Bu, P. I. Deevi, A. A. Lazar, S. Shukla, and Y. Zhou
DrosoGPT: a Natural Language Querying Interface for Exploring the Structure and Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain
Neuroscience 2024 , Society of Neuroscience , October 5 - 9 , 2024 , Chicago, IL
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B. Y. Bu, A. A. Lazar, and Y. Zhou
Evaluating with Natural Scenes the End-to-End Motion Detection of the Drosophila Early Visual System
Neurobiology of Drosophila , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , October 3 - 7 , 2023
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Odorant Mixture Separation in the Drosophila Mushroom Body Calyx
Neurobiology of Drosophila , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , October 3 - 7 , 2023
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B. Y. Bu, A. A. Lazar, and Y. Zhou
End-to-End Modeling of the Drosophila Early Vision System with Cascading Divisive Normalization Processors
Neuroscience 2024 , Society for Neuroscience , October 5 - 9 , 2024 , Chicago, IL
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A. A. Lazar, S. Shukla, and Y. Zhou
Generating Wiring Diagrams of Local Processing Units of the Drosophila Central Complex
Neurobiology of Drosophila , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , October 3 - 7 , 2023
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A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Beyond the Connectome: Divisive Normalization Processors in the Drosophila Early Olfactory and Vision Systems
Computational Neuroscience Meeting, CNS*24 , July 20 - 24 , 2024 , Natal, Brazil
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M. K. Turkcan, T. Liu, C.-H. Yeh, Y. Zhou, and A. A. Lazar
FlyBrainLab: An Interactive Computing Environment for the Fruit Fly Brain
Society of Neuroscience , October 19-24 , 2019 , Chicago, IL
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M. K. Turkcan, Y. Zhou, and A. A. Lazar
A Circuit Library for Exploring the Functional Logic of Massive Feedback Loops in Drosophila Brain
COSYNE 2022 , March 17-22 , 2022 , Lisbon, Portugal
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M. Yang, C.-H. Yeh, Y. Zhou, J. P. Cerqueira, A. A. Lazar, and M. Seok
A 1μW Voice Activity Detector Using Analog Feature Extraction and Digital Deep Neural Network
2018 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) , pp. 346-348 , February 11-15 , 2018 , San Francisco, CA
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Abstracts


A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou
Encoding Visual Stimuli with a Population of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons
Computational Neuroscience Meeting , July 24-30 , 2010 , San Antonio, TX
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A. A. Lazar, Y. B. Slutskiy, and Y. Zhou
Functional Identification and Evaluation of Massively Parallel Neural Circuits
Computational Neuroscience Meeting , July 13-18 , 2013 , Paris, France
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A. A. Lazar, W. Li, N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Neural Circuit Abstractions in the Fruit Fly Brain
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts , November 9-13 , 2013 , San Diego, California
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
A Parallel Programming Model of Local Processing Units in the Fruit Fly Brain
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics , Number 24 , August 2014 , Leiden, The Netherlands
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Modeling Contrast Gain Control of Fly Photoreceptors
27th Computational Neuroscience Meeting , July 13-18 , 2018 , Seattle, WA
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli
BMC Neuroscience , Volume 16 (Suppl 1) , pp. 300 , July 2015
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A. A. Lazar, K. Psychas, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Retina of the Fruit Fly Eyes: A Detailed Simulation Model
BMC Neuroscience , Volume 16 (Suppl 1) , pp. 301 , July 2015
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L. E. Givon, A. A. Lazar, K. Psychas, N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
Neurokernel: Building an in Silico Fruit Fly Brain
IEEE EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference , IEEE , November 2014
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
A General Model for Divisive Normalization and its Identification
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts , November 11-15 , 2017 , Washington, DC
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A. A. Lazar, T. Liu, and Y. Zhou
Divisive Normalization Circuits Faithfully Represent Visual, Olfactory and Auditory Stimuli
BMC Neuroscience 2019, 20 (Suppl 1): P353 , 28th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting , 13-17 July , 2019 , Barcelona, Spain
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, and Y. Zhou
NeuroGFX: A Graphical Functional Explorer for Fruit Fly Brain Circuits
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts , November 11-15 , 2017 , Washington, DC
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N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, A. Tomkins, Y. Zhou, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, Y.-C. Huang, C.-T. Wang, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: from Structure to Function
Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting , February 2017 , Salt Lake City, UT
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Y. Zhou, K. Psychas, N. H. Ukani, and A. A. Lazar
Visualizing Parallel Information Processing in the Fruit Fly Retina
Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting , February 2016 , Salt Lake City, UT
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N. H. Ukani, A. Tomkins, C.-H. Yeh, W. Bruning, A. L. Fenichel, Y. Zhou, Y.-C. Huang, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
NeuroNLP: A Natural Language Portal for Aggregated Fruit Fly Brain Data
Computational Neuroscience Meeting , Volume 18 (Suppl 1):60 , BMC Neuroscience 2017 , July 2017 , University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Request for Comments


A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
The Cartridge: A Canonical Neural Circuit Abstraction of the Lamina Neuropil -- Construction and Composition Rules
Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #2 , January 2014
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A. A. Lazar, K. Psychas, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
A Parallel Processing Model of the Drosophila Retina
Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #3 , August 2015
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A. A. Lazar, N. H. Ukani, and Y. Zhou
Sparse Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli
Neurons and Cognition, arXiv.org , June 2017
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N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, A. Tomkins, Y. Zhou, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, Y.-C. Huang, C.-T. Wang, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: from Structure to Function
Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #7 , December 2016
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C.-H. Yeh, Y. Zhou, N. H. Ukani, and A. A. Lazar
NeuroGFX: a Graphical Functional Explorer for Fruit Fly Brain Circuits
Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #9 , December 2016
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N. H. Ukani, A. Tomkins, C.-H. Yeh, W. Bruning, A. L. Fenichel, Y. Zhou, Y.-C. Huang, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
NeuroNLP: a Natural Language Portal for Aggregated Fruit Fly Brain Data
Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #8 , December 2016
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Source Code


N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, A. Tomkins, Y. Zhou, M. K. Turkcan, T. Liu, J. Marty, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, Y.-C. Huang, C.-T. Wang, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar
Fruit Fly Brain Observatory Source Code, Installation and Launching
Github , October 2018
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