.: Yariv Z. Levy :.

Yariv Z. Levy

PhD Candidate

In Fall 2005, I joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in order to expand my scientific knowledge and to further improve my research experience. Currently, I'm a PhD student co-advised by Prof. Andrew G. Barto and Prof. Jerrold S. Meyer. Expected graduation: 2012.

Conferences

[ NEW ] Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer (2011). Computational Hypothesis for Maturing Out of Addiction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Techniques. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society (BICA 2011), Arlington, VA, November 2011.

article : [PDF] - [@ IOS Press] - (Oral presentation)
Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2010). Identification and Control of Intrinsic Bias in a Multiscale Computational Model of Drug Addiction. Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2010), Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010.

Track 38: Advances in Computer Simulation (SIM 2010)

article : [PDF] - [@ ACM] - (Oral presentation)
Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Ceasing the use of narcotics without treatments in the context of a multiscale computational model of addiction. 6th annual meeting of the Society for Autonomous Neurodynamics: Principles of Autonomous Neurodynamics (SAND VI), La Jolla, CA, USA, July 2009.

abstract : [PDF] - (Oral presentation)
Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Neuropsychology, cognition, and behavior of drug addiction: A non-monotonic multiscale computational model. 13th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2009), Boston, MA, USA, May 2009.

abstract : [PDF] - (Oral presentation)
Y.Z. Levy^∗, D. Levy^∗, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2009). Drug Addiction: a Computational Multiscale Model Combining Neuropsychology, Cognition, and Behavior. Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2009), Porto, Portugal, January 2009.

article : [PDF] - (Oral presentation)

^∗ Authors with equal contributions
Also appeared as: Technical Report UM-CS-2008-34, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, September 2008.
Y.Z. Levy, D. Levy, J.S. Meyer, H.T. Siegelmann (2008). Drug Addiction as a Non-monotonic Process: a Multiscale Computational Model. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2008), Singapore, December 2008.

article : [PDF] - [@Springer] - (Poster presentation)

Other documents

Technical Report UM-CS-2011-033, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, September 2011
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal, May 2011

TITLE : Multiscale Modeling of Human Addiction: a Computational Approach to Predict Drug-Seeking Behavior
abstract : [PDF] - complete document available upon request
Technical Report UM-CS-2010-015, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, February 2010
Technical Report UM-CS-2009-002, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, February 2009
Technical Report UM-CS-2008-034, Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, September 2008

Service activities

Graduate Student Representative at the UMass Research Council (2009 - 2012)
Graduate Student Representative at the UMass International Studies Council (2009 - 2011)
Reviewer for NESCAI 2010
Organizing and Scientific Committee at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Autonomous Neurodynamics: Principles of Autonomous Neurodynamics (SAND VI), La Jolla, CA, USA (2009)
CS Candidate week-end Committee and Volunteer (2006-2008)
BINDS laboratory webmaster (2005-2008)

Honors

[ NEW ] UMass Graduate School Travel Grant 2011
ACM SIGAPP Student Travel Award 2010
UMass Graduate School Travel Grant 2009
BIOSIGNALS 2009 Travel Grant
UMass Graduate School Travel Grant 2008
Invited participant at the 2nd Okinawa Conference on Mathematics and Biology : Multi-Scale Phenomena In Biology, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan, November 2008
Departmental nomination for the 2007 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award
Invited participant at the Experimental & Computational Neurodynamics Summer School, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), La Jolla, CA, USA, August 2005

Background

I earned my BSc and MSc degrees from the Computer Science Department at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.

During my BSc degree I learned fundamentals concepts of computer science engineering: strong mathematical knowledge and foundation of hardware and software development.

During my MSc degree I focused my curriculum in computer science related to biology: Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Systems and Programming, Bio-inspired Adaptive Machines and Bioinformatics. I decided to concentrate my studies on the field of Computational Neuroscience and I joined the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry under the supervision of Prof. Henry Markram.

Complete CV available upon request. Partial CV available [@ LinkedIn].

Contact

Computer Science Department
140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264

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