I'm interested in using mathematical and computational tools to study the neural mechanisms underlying conscious information processing. Additionally, I'm interested in wearable Brain-Computer Interface technology. I've been involved in research intersecting the fields of Computational Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Human-Computer Interaction (namely, Context-Aware Computing and Ubiquitous Computing).

You can check out my full CV here (with project details, awards, etc, added), or look at the pub listing below.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

[1] Mullen, T., Huang, Q., Reich, J. (2007)
Towards Ubiquitous Brain-Aware Computing: A Preliminary EEG Study. (Under review) Sixth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys '08). Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. (pdf)

JOURNAL PAPERS

Acknowledged in:

[2] Padilla, M., Hale, L., Wood, R., & Knight, R. T. (2006). Lapses in a prefrontal-extrastriate preparatory attention network predict mistakes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.18:1477-1487. (Pubmed Link)

Acknowledged in:

[3] Fuhrmann Alpert, G., Sun, F. T., Handwerker, D., D'Esposito, M., & Knight, R. T.  (2006). Information Analysis of Event-Related BOLD Responses. NeuroImage. 34 (4) 1545-1561. (Pubmed Link)

INVITED TALKS and POSTERS

[4] Padilla, M.L., Mullen T.R., & Knight R.T. (2005). Differential contributions of lateral and orbitofrontal cortex to preparatory attention and action monitoring. Symposium Talk & Poster. Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington D.C.

[5] Mullen, T., Huang, Q., Reich, J. (2006). Project Halo: Enabling Ubiquitous Brain-Aware Computing. Poster. PARC Annual Poster Session. Palo Alto, CA. (jpg)

[6] Fuhrmann, G.,* Mullen T.,* Suppiah, S., Soltani, M., Edwards E., Canolty, R., Sarang, D., Kirsch, H., Barbaro, N., Knight, R.T. (2007). Functional Connectivity and Information Flow in the Human Brain during Language Processing: Evidence from ECoG data. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, New York, N.Y. (jpg)

[7] Bastos, A.,* Mullen, T.,* Canolty, R., Pasley, B., Knight, R., Freeman, R. (2008).
SSVEP-based Single-Trial Classification of Attention. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA. (pdf)

* These authors contributed equally to this work

PATENTS

[8] Mullen, T. and Huang, Q. (2007). Brainwave-Facilitated Presenter Feedback Mechanism. (patent pending)

[9] Mullen, T. and Huang, Q. (2007). Brainwave-Aware Sleep Management. (patent pending)

SELECTED TERM PROJECTS

CS160 : User Interface Design. Mullen, T., Bolton, J., Jian, S., Martinez , A. (2006). NEEDster: Need-based Exchange Enhancement Device. Prototype Exhibition, Talk, and Poster. (jpg)

CS182: Neural Basis of Thought and Language. (2006). Dynamic Identification of Focal Cluster ROIs Using Time-lagged Mutual Information. (pdf)

VS298: Neural Computation (2006). ICA-based Identification of Overlapping Spatial Clusters in ECoG Data. (pdf)

STAT153: Time-Series Analysis (2007). Functional Connectivity and Information Flow in ECoG Data: A Linear Approach. (pdf)