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NAME
Catherine Stamoulis POSITION TITLE
Instructor in Radiology
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
catherinest
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
DEGREE
(if applicable)
YEAR(s)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB
1993
Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB
1993
Civil and Environmental Engineeing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM
1994
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD
1997
In the field of Acoustics INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
FIELD OF STUDY
B. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
1997­1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Department of Ocean Engineering, Cambridge MA
1998­1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard/MIT Departments of Earth Atm.. and Planetary Sci. (jointly)
1999­2001 Research Scientist, MIT/US Naval Research Lab. (jointly), Washington DC
2001­2004 Research Scientist, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2004­2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT, McGovern Inst. for Brain Res., Cambridge, MA
2007­ 2009 Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA
2009­2010 Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2009­ Member, Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Core, Harvard Medical School
2011­ Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Hospital appointments
2009­2010 Instructor in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
2011­ Associate Scientific Research Staff, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston , Boston MA
2011­ Senior Biostatistician, Clinical Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston MA Honors & Awards
MIT, Outstanding Teaching and Service Award (Office of Minority Education) 1999
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
Acoustical Society of America (Elected full member July 1998)
Society for Neuroscience (Regular member)
IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Member)
American Statistical Association (Regular member)
American Epilepsy Society (Regular member)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (Regular member)
B. Peer­reviewed Publications (selected)
[1] Stamoulis, C., Chang, B.S., Estimation of directional brain anisotropy from EEG signals using the Mellin transform and implications for source localization, Proceedings of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing*, p. 1­6, 2011 (in press, PMID not yet available, NIHMS286526)
[2] Stamoulis, C., Betensky, R.A., A novel signal processing approach for the detection of copy­number variations in the human genomes, Bionformatics (2011, in press, PMID not yet available) [3] Stamoulis, C., Chang, B.S., Multi­scale Information for Network Characterization in Epilepsy, Proc. Int. Conf. of the IEEE Eng. In Med. Biol. Soc., 2011 (in press, PMID not yet available)
[4] Stamoulis, C., Estimation of Correlations between Copy Number Variants in Non­Coding DNA, Proc. Int. Conf. of the IEEE Eng. In Med. Biol. Soc., 2011 (in press, PMID not yet available)
[5] Stamoulis, C., Oberman, L.M., Praeg, E., Bashir, S., Pascual­Leone, A., Single pulse TMS­induced modulations of resting brain neurodynamics encoded in EEG phase, Brain Topography 2011 (Epub ahead of print), PMID: 21203817
[6] Barnes, T. , Mao, J.B., Hu, D., Kubota, Y., Dreyer, A., Stamoulis, C., Brown, E.N., and Graybiel, A., Advance­Cueing Produces Enhanced Action­Boundary Patterning of Spike Activity in the Sensorimotor Striatum, Journal of Neurophysiology, 2011 (Epub ahead of print), PMID: 21307317
[7] Stamoulis, C., Gruber, L.J., Chang, B.S., Network Dynamics of the Epileptic Brain at Rest, Proc. Int. Conf. of the IEEE Eng. In Med. Biol. Soc., 2010, 1:150­3, 2010. PMCID: PMC3058682
[8] Stamoulis, C. Richardson, A.G., Application of Matched­Filtering to Identify Behavioral Modulation of Brain Oscillations, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 29(1­2):63­72, 2010 (Epub ahead of print 2009) PMCID:
PMC2930035
[9] Stamoulis, C. Richardson, A.G., Encoding of brain state changes in local field potentials modulated by motor behaviors, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2010 (Epub ahead of print Feb 2010) PMCID: PMC2914849 [10] Stamoulis, C. Chang, B.S., Application of Matched­Filtering to Extract EEG Features and Decouple Signal Contributions from Multiple Seizure Foci in Brain Malformations, Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference in Neural Engineering, p. 514­517, 2009, PMCID: PMC2860141. [11] Stamoulis, C. Chang, B.S., Madsen, J.R., Estimation of EEG Signal Dispersion During Seizure Propagation, IEEE Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, p.1­5, 2009, PMCID: PMC2860143.
[12] Stamoulis, C., Betensky, R.A., Mohapatra, G., Louis, D.N., Application of Signal Processing Techniques for Estimating Regions of Copy Number Variations in DNA of Patients with Meningiomas, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009, PMCID: PMC2796201. [13] Stamoulis, C., Praeg, E., Bashir, S., Chang, B.S., Pascual­Leone, A., Estimation of Brain State Changes Associated with Behavior, Stimulation and Epilepsy, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009, PMCID: PMC2796057
[14] Stamoulis C, Dyer, I., Acoustically Derived Ice­Fracture
Velocity in Central Arctic Pack Ice, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108 (1), 96­104, 2000, PMID: 10923875. Research Support (active):
Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grants Harvard Medical School 08/01/2010­7/31/2011
Role: PI
A seizure prediction methodology based on modulations of brain neurodynamics
The goal of this pilot project is to develop a robust seizure prediction methodology in focal epilepsy, based on information theoretic measures
Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Harvard Medical School 06/01/09­04/30/13
Center , NIH L. Nadler (PI)
UL1 RR 025758­01
Role: Biostatistician (Biostatistics Core)
Completed Support:
Harvard Neurodiscovery Center Harvard Medical School 04/01/2010­3/31/2011 (no­cost extension to 5/31/2011)
Role: PI
Detection of copy number changes in DNA of patients with sporadic ALS
The goal of this project is to apply developed signal­processing based methods for detection of DNA allelic aberrations in the genome of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
NIH 5R03CA121884 Betenksy (PI) 04/01/05­3/31/10 Statistical Methods for Analysis of Array CGH Data
Role: Site PI The goal of this project is to develop statistical methods for the detection of copy number changes in DNA of patients with meningiomas and extend these methods to neurodegenerative diseases, including sporadic ALS NIH K23 NS049159 Chang(PI) 07/01/04­ 04/30/10
Functional Architecture of Developmental Brain Disorders Role: Investigator
The goal of this project is to investigate the spatio­temporal characteristics of epileptic seizures in patients with neurodevelopmental brain malformations
International Brain Research Foundation Pascual­Leone(PI) 5/1/2009­4/30/2010
EEG­Gated Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation
Role: Investigator
The goal of this project is to measure the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on the dynamics of the brain using simultaneous (on­line) EEG recordings
T32NS048005 Betensky(PI) 8/1/07­12/31/08
NIH/NINDS
Training Grant in Biostatistics
Role: Trainee
Post­doctoral fellowship in neurostatistics
Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation Bizzi(PI) 11/01/­5­4/30/9
Development of assistive (robotic) communication system for non­verbal people with autism
Role: Co­PI