Short Curriculum Vitae

• since 2011 - PhD student, MPI MIS, Leipzig, Germany
• 2005-2010 - MSc in Informatics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
• 2008 - Exchange term, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

• 2009-2010 - Research Assistant, Institute of Pharmacology, PAS, Krakow, Poland

Invited talks:

• "Statistical models of binaural sounds", Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, April 2013, (video)

• "Auditory modulation of oscillatory activity in human visual cortex is sound source position dependent", Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, March 2013

• "Hierarchical extensions of Independent Component Analysis", Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, October 2012

Research interests

• Machine learning
• Natural sound / scene statistics
• Efficient coding models 
• Spatial hearing / auditory scene analysis
• Oscillatory phenomena in electrophysiology

Publications

Papers:

• Korostynski M., Piechota M., Dzbek J., Mlynarski W., Szklarczyk K., Ziolkowska B. and Przewlocki R. "The pattern of transcriptional networks in the striatum predicts pharmacological properties of psychotropic drugs", submitted

Posters:

• Mlynarski W., Freigang C., Benneman J., Stoehr C. and Ruebsamen R. "Auditory induced modulation of visual oscillatory activity depends on the position of the sound source", Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, April 2013, San Francisco, USA

• Mlynarski W. "Unsupervised learning of binaural features from naturalistic stereo sounds", COSYNE, February/March 2013, Salt Lake City, USA

• Mlynarski W. "Efficient coding of binaural sound", Sensory Coding and Natural Environment, September 2012, Klosterneuburg, Austria

• Korostynski M., Piechota M., Dzbek J., Mlynarski W., Szklarczyk K., Ziolkowska B., Przewlocki R. "The comparison of molecular profiles of antidepressants with various mechanisms of action", Society for Neuroscience, October 2012, New Orleans, USA

• Mlynarski W. "Sound source positioning and tracking with Slow Feature Analysis", "Making Sense of Sound 2012" meeting, February 2012, Plymouth, UK

• Piechota M., Mlynarski W., Korostynski M., Przewlocki R. "genes2mind.org: an online resource for the genomic profiling of psychoactive drugs", The tenth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Conference on Genome Informatics, September 2010, Hinxton, UK.