@article{LPZ13,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and E. A. Pnevmatikakis and Y. Zhou",
  title = "The Power of Connectivity: Identity Preserving Transformations on Visual Streams in the Spike Domain",
  year = 2013,
  journal = "Neural Networks",
  volume = 44,
  pages = "22-35"
}


@abstract{LAY10,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Encoding Visual Stimuli with a Population of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons",
  year = 2010,
  booktitle = "Computational Neuroscience Meeting",
  month = "Jul"
}


@inproceedings{LAZ11,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Realizing Video Time Decoding Machines with Recurrent Neural Networks",
  year = 2011,
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks",
  month = "Jul"
}


@article{LAY12,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Massively Parallel Neural Encoding and Decoding of Visual Stimuli",
  year = 2012,
  journal = "Neural Networks",
  volume = 32,
  pages = "303-312",
  month = "Aug"
}


@article{LPZ10,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and E. A. Pnevmatikakis and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Encoding Natural Scenes with Neural Circuits with Random Thresholds",
  year = 2010,
  journal = "Vision Research",
  volume = 50,
  number = 22,
  pages = "2200-2212",
  month = "Oct",
  keywords = "neural encoding of natural scenes, receptive fields, neural circuits with random thresholds, reconstruction of visual stimuli, reproducing kernel hilbert spaces, regularization."
}


@abstract{2013a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. B. Slutskiy and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Functional Identification and Evaluation of Massively Parallel Neural Circuits",
  year = 2013,
  booktitle = "Computational Neuroscience Meeting",
  month = "Jul"
}


@abstract{2013a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and W. Li and N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Neural Circuit Abstractions in the Fruit Fly Brain",
  year = 2013,
  journal = "Society for Neuroscience Abstracts",
  month = "Nov"
}


@article{2014a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "The Cartridge: A Canonical Neural Circuit Abstraction of the Lamina Neuropil -- Construction and Composition Rules",
  year = 2014,
  journal = "Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #2",
  month = "Jan"
}


@inproceedings{2024a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Divisive Normalization Processing Underlies Odorant Mixture Representation in the Mushroom Body Calyx",
  year = 2024,
  booktitle = "Neuroscience 2024",
  publisher = "Society of Neuroscience",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2021a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "FlyBrainLab: A Complete Programming Environment for Discovering the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain",
  year = 2021,
  publisher = "Neuroinformatics Assembly 2021",
  month = "Apr"
}


@abstract{2014a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Parallel Programming Model of Local Processing Units in the Fruit Fly Brain",
  year = 2014,
  journal = "Frontiers in Neuroinformatics",
  number = 24,
  month = "Aug"
}


@abstract{LUZ18,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Modeling Contrast Gain Control of Fly Photoreceptors",
  year = 2018,
  publisher = "27th Computational Neuroscience Meeting"
}


@abstract{2015a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli",
  year = 2015,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience",
  volume = 16 (Suppl 1),
  pages = "300",
  month = "Jul"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "FlyBrainLab: Interactive Computing in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era",
  year = 2020,
  publisher = "Jupytercon",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "FlyBrainLab: An Interactive Computing Platform for Exploring the Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2020,
  publisher = "PyData Global",
  month = "Nov"
}


@article{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Sparse Identification of Contrast Gain Control in the Fruit Fly Photoreceptor and Amacrine Cell Layer",
  year = 2020,
  journal = "The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience",
  publisher = "Springer Open",
  volume = 10,
  number = 3,
  month = "Feb"
}


@article{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "FlyBrainLab: Accelerating the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain in the Connectomic/Synaptomic Era",
  year = 2020,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Jun"
}


@abstract{2015b,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and K. Psychas and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Retina of the Fruit Fly Eyes: A Detailed Simulation Model",
  year = 2015,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience",
  volume = 16 (Suppl 1),
  pages = "301",
  month = "Jul"
}


@article{nkrfc3,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and K. Psychas and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Parallel Processing Model of the Drosophila Retina",
  year = 2015,
  journal = "Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #3",
  month = "Aug"
}


@article{LUZ18,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Sparse Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli",
  year = 2018,
  journal = "The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience",
  volume = 8,
  number = 2,
  pages = "1-40",
  month = "Jan"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Generating Executable Mushroom Body and Lateral Horn Circuits from the Hemibrain Dataset with FlyBrainLab",
  year = 2020,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P105",
  booktitle = "CNS*2020",
  month = "Jul"
}


@article{2014a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Reconstructing Natural Visual Scenes from Spike Times",
  year = 2014,
  journal = "Proceedings of the IEEE",
  volume = 102,
  number = 10,
  pages = "1500-1519",
  month = "Oct"
}


@abstract{2014a,
  author = "L. E. Givon and A. A. Lazar and K. Psychas and N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Neurokernel: Building an in Silico Fruit Fly Brain",
  year = 2014,
  booktitle = "IEEE EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  month = "Nov"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Comparing Drosophila Neural Circuit Models with FlyBrainLab",
  year = 2020,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P112",
  booktitle = "CNS*2020",
  month = "Jul"
}


@article{LSZ15,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. B. Slutskiy and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Massively Parallel Neural Circuits for Stereoscopic Color Vision: Encoding, Decoding and Identification",
  year = 2015,
  journal = "Neural Networks",
  volume = 63,
  pages = "254-271",
  month = "Mar"
}


@article{2017a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Sparse Functional Identification of Complex Cells from Spike Times and the Decoding of Visual Stimuli",
  year = 2017,
  journal = "Neurons and Cognition, arXiv.org",
  month = "Jun"
}


@abstract{2019a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Divisive Normalization Circuits Faithfully Represent Visual, Olfactory and Auditory Stimuli",
  year = 2019,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience 2019, 20 (Suppl 1): P353",
  publisher = "28th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting"
}


@article{2019a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Sparse Identification of Contrast Gain Control in the Fruit Fly Photoreceptor and Amacrine Cell Layer",
  year = 2019,
  journal = "Neurons and Cognition, arXiv",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2021a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Untangling the Graph Structure of Drosophila Brain Datasets with Open Source FlyBrainLab Utility Libraries",
  year = 2021,
  journal = "Society of Neuroscience",
  month = "Nov"
}


@article{2021a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Accelerating with FlyBrainLab the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain in the Connectomic and Synaptomic Era",
  year = 2021,
  journal = "eLife",
  month = "Feb"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Comparative Study of Fruit Fly Brain Circuit Models with FlyBrainLab",
  year = 2020,
  publisher = "neuromatch 3.0",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2014a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Volterra Dendritic Stimulus Processors and Biophysical Spike Generators with Intrinsic Noise Sources",
  year = 2014,
  journal = "Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience",
  volume = 8,
  number = 95,
  pages = "1-24",
  month = "Sep"
}


@article{LAZ16,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Identifying Multisensory Dendritic Stimulus Processors",
  year = 2016,
  journal = "IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications",
  volume = 2,
  number = 2,
  pages = "183-198",
  month = "Dec"
}


@inproceedings{2020a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Functional Identification of the Odorant Transduction Process of Drosophila Olfactory Sensory Neurons",
  year = 2020,
  journal = "BMC Neuroscience 2020, 21(Suppl 1):P225",
  booktitle = "CNS*2020",
  month = "Jul"
}


@inproceedings{2021a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "NeuroNLP Gene Match—An Open Source Genetic Data Visualizer and Explorer",
  year = 2021,
  journal = "Neurobiology of Drosophila",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2016a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Motion Detection Algorithm Using Local Phase Information",
  year = 2016,
  journal = "Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience",
  volume = 2016, Article ID 7915245,
  month = "Jan"
}


@inproceedings{2023a,
  author = "B. Y. Bu and A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Evaluating with Natural Scenes the End-to-End Motion Detection of the Drosophila Early Visual System",
  year = 2023,
  booktitle = "Neurobiology of Drosophila",
  publisher = "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2023a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Odorant Mixture Separation in the Drosophila Mushroom Body Calyx",
  year = 2023,
  booktitle = "Neurobiology of Drosophila",
  publisher = "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2024a,
  author = "B. Y. Bu and A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "End-to-End Modeling of the Drosophila Early Vision System with Cascading Divisive Normalization Processors",
  year = 2024,
  booktitle = "Neuroscience 2024",
  publisher = "Society for Neuroscience",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2024a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Modeling and Characterization of Pure and Odorant Mixture Processing in the Drosophila Mushroom Body Calyx",
  year = 2024,
  journal = "Frontiers in Physiology: Invertebrate Physiology",
  publisher = " Research Topic: Invertebrate Brains as Model Systems for Learning, Memory, and Recall: Development, Anatomy and Function of Memory Systems",
  volume = 15,
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2023a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and S. Shukla and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Generating Wiring Diagrams of Local Processing Units of the Drosophila Central Complex",
  year = 2023,
  booktitle = "Neurobiology of Drosophila",
  publisher = "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2022a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Divisive Normalization Circuits Faithfully Represent Auditory and Visual Stimuli",
  year = 2022,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Sep"
}


@inproceedings{2024a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Beyond the Connectome: Divisive Normalization Processors in the Drosophila Early Olfactory and Vision Systems",
  year = 2024,
  journal = "Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2024",
  publisher = "J Comput Neurosci 53 (Suppl 1), 3–89 (2025)",
  month = "Jul"
}


@article{2022a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Programmable Ontology Encompassing the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2022,
  journal = "Frontiers in Neuroinformatics",
  booktitle = "Neuroinformatics of Large Scale Brain Modelling",
  month = "Jun"
}


@article{2021a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Programmable Ontology Encompassing the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2021,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Dec"
}


@article{2023a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Divisive Normalization Processors in the Early Visual System of the Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2023,
  journal = "Biological Cybernetics",
  publisher = "Springer, Special Issue: What can Computer Vision learn from Visual Neuroscience?",
  volume = 117,
  pages = "411-431",
  month = "Sep"
}


@article{2022a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Mushroom Body",
  year = 2022,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Sep"
}


@article{2022a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and T. Liu and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou",
  title = "Odorant Mixture Separation in Drosophila Early Olfactory System",
  year = 2022,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Sep"
}


@article{2022a,
  author = "A. A. Lazar and M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou",
  title = "A Programmable Model for Exploring the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Antennal Lobe",
  year = 2022,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  month = "Sep"
}


@inproceedings{2024a,
  author = "S. Shukla and Y. Zhou and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "Modeling Small Object Detection of Drosophila Lobula Circuits with Divisive Normalization Processors",
  year = 2024,
  booktitle = "Neuroscience 2024",
  publisher = "Society for Neuroscience",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2021a,
  author = "M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "Interrogating the Functional Logic of Drosophila Brain Circuits at Single-Synapse Scale",
  year = 2021,
  journal = "Society of Neuroscience",
  month = "Nov"
}


@abstract{lazar_et_al_sfn_2017b,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and Y. Zhou and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "A General Model for Divisive Normalization and its Identification",
  year = 2017,
  journal = "Society for Neuroscience Abstracts",
  month = "Nov"
}


@inproceedings{2019a,
  author = "M. K. Turkcan and T. Liu and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "FlyBrainLab: An Interactive Computing Environment for the Fruit Fly Brain",
  year = 2019,
  journal = "Society of Neuroscience",
  month = "Oct"
}


@inproceedings{2022a,
  author = "M. K. Turkcan and Y. Zhou and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "A Circuit Library for Exploring the Functional Logic of Massive Feedback Loops in Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2022,
  booktitle = "COSYNE 2022"
}


@abstract{lazar_et_al_sfc_2017a,
  author = "Y. Zhou and C.-H. Yeh and N. H. Ukani and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "NeuroGFX: A Graphical Functional Explorer for Fruit Fly Brain Circuits",
  year = 2017,
  journal = "Society for Neuroscience Abstracts",
  month = "Nov"
}


@article{2019a,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and A. Tomkins and Y. Zhou and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and Y.-C. Huang and C.-T. Wang and M. K. Turkcan and T. Liu and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: From Structure to Function",
  year = 2019,
  journal = "bioRxiv",
  volume = 580290,
  month = "Mar"
}


@abstract{2017a,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and A. Tomkins and Y. Zhou and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and Y.-C. Huang and C.-T. Wang and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: from Structure to Function",
  year = 2017,
  booktitle = "Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting",
  month = "Feb"
}


@article{2016a,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and A. Tomkins and Y. Zhou and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and Y.-C. Huang and C.-T. Wang and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: from Structure to Function",
  year = 2016,
  journal = "Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #7",
  month = "Dec"
}


@inproceedings{2018a,
  author = "M. Yang and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou and J. P. Cerqueira and A. A. Lazar and M. Seok",
  title = "A 1μW Voice Activity Detector Using Analog Feature Extraction and Digital Deep Neural Network",
  year = 2018,
  journal = "2018 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)",
  pages = "346-348",
  month = "Feb"
}


@article{2019a,
  author = "M. Yang and C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou and J. P. Cerqueira and A. A. Lazar and M. Seok",
  title = "Design of an Always-On Deep Neural Network Based 1 μW Voice Activity Detector Aided with a Customized Software Model for Analog Feature Extraction",
  year = 2019,
  journal = "IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  volume = 54,
  number = 6,
  pages = "1764-1777",
  month = "Jun"
}


@abstract{2016a,
  author = "Y. Zhou and K. Psychas and N. H. Ukani and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "Visualizing Parallel Information Processing in the Fruit Fly Retina",
  year = 2016,
  booktitle = "Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting",
  month = "Feb"
}


@url{2018a,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and C.-H. Yeh and A. Tomkins and Y. Zhou and M. K. Turkcan and T. Liu and J. Marty and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and Y.-C. Huang and C.-T. Wang and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "Fruit Fly Brain Observatory Source Code, Installation and Launching",
  year = 2018,
  publisher = "Github",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2016a,
  author = "C.-H. Yeh and Y. Zhou and N. H. Ukani and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "NeuroGFX: a Graphical Functional Explorer for Fruit Fly Brain Circuits",
  year = 2016,
  journal = "Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #9",
  month = "Dec"
}


@inproceedings{2024a,
  author = "P. I. Deevi and Y. Zhou and S. Shukla and B. Y. Bu and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "DrosoGPT: a Natural Language Querying Interface for Exploring the Structure and Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain",
  year = 2024,
  booktitle = "Neuroscience 2024",
  publisher = "Society of Neuroscience",
  month = "Oct"
}


@article{2016a,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and A. Tomkins and C.-H. Yeh and W. Bruning and A. L. Fenichel and Y. Zhou and Y.-C. Huang and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "NeuroNLP: a Natural Language Portal for Aggregated Fruit Fly Brain Data",
  year = 2016,
  journal = "Neurokernel Request for Comments, Neurokernel RFC #8",
  month = "Dec"
}


@abstract{UTY17,
  author = "N. H. Ukani and A. Tomkins and C.-H. Yeh and W. Bruning and A. L. Fenichel and Y. Zhou and Y.-C. Huang and D. Florescu and C. L. Ortiz and P. Richmond and C.-C. Lo and D. Coca and A.-S. Chiang and A. A. Lazar",
  title = "NeuroNLP: A Natural Language Portal for Aggregated Fruit Fly Brain Data",
  year = 2017,
  booktitle = "Computational Neuroscience Meeting",
  publisher = "BMC  Neuroscience  2017",
  volume = 18 (Suppl 1):60,
  month = "Jul"
}