publications&presentations

2025

1. AI Summit

   Efficient EHR Foundational Models: A Mixture-of-Experts Approach for Patient Timeline Prediction

   Athreya, Matthias P. Christenson, and Warren Pettine

   AI Summit, University of Utah, 2025

2024

1. AIME

   Assessing Foundation Models’ Transferability to Physiological Signals in Precision Medicine

   Matthias P. Christenson, Cove Geary, Brian Locke, Pranav Koirala, and 1 more author

   AI in Medicine Conference, 2024

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2. Nature Neuro.

   Hue selectivity from recurrent circuitry in Drosophila

   Matthias P Christenson,  Sanz Dı́ez, Sarah L Heath, Maia Saavedra-Weisenhaus, and 3 more authors

   Nature Neuroscience, 2024

   Bib PDF URL

   @article{Christenson2023.07.12.548573,
     title = {Hue selectivity from recurrent circuitry in Drosophila},
     author = {Christenson, Matthias P and {\'A}lvaro Sanz D{\'\i}ez and Heath, Sarah L and Saavedra-Weisenhaus, Maia and Adachi, Atsuko and Abbott, L.F. and Behnia, Rudy},
     journal = {Nature Neuroscience},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01640-4},
   }

2023

1. DefenseTech

   Field Casualty Management AI

   Warren Pettine, Matthias P. Christenson, and Pranav Koirala

   Defense TechConnect Conference, 2023

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2022

1. Phil. R. Soc.

   Exploiting colour space geometry for visual stimulus design across animals

   Matthias P. Christenson, S. Navid Mousavi, Elie Oriol, Sarah L. Heath, and 1 more author

   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022

   Bib PDF URL

   @article{Christenson2022ExploitingCS,
     title = {Exploiting colour space geometry for visual stimulus design across animals},
     author = {Christenson, Matthias P. and Mousavi, S. Navid and Oriol, Elie and Heath, Sarah L. and Behnia, Rudy},
     journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {377},
     url = {https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0280},
   }

2. CoSyNe

   Normative models of spatio-spectral decorrelation predict observed receptor distributions

   Ishani Ganguly*, Matthias P. Christenson*, and Rudy Behnia

   Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference, 2022

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2021

1. Current Biology

   Flexible filtering by neural inputs supports motion computation across states and stimuli

   Jessica R. Kohn*, Jacob P. Portes*, Matthias P. Christenson, L. F. Abbott, and 1 more author

   Current Biology, 2021

   Bib PDF URL

   @article{Kohn2021FlexibleFB,
     author = {Kohn*, Jessica R. and Portes*, Jacob P. and Christenson, Matthias P. and Abbott, L. F. and Behnia, Rudy},
     journal = {Current Biology},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {31},
     pages = {5249-5260.e5},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221013178?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint},
   }

2. Neurotheory

   Inferring feedforward inputs to data-constrained recurrent neural networks

   Matthias P. Christenson, Rudy Behnia, and Larry Abbott

   Columbia Neurotheory Meeting, 2021

2020

1. Current Biology

   Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Chromatic Encoding in Drosophila Photoreceptors

   Sarah L. Heath*, Matthias P. Christenson*, Elie Oriol, Maia Saavedra-Weisenhaus, and 2 more authors

   Current Biology, 2020

   Bib PDF URL

   @article{Heath2019CircuitMU,
     title = {Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Chromatic Encoding in Drosophila Photoreceptors},
     author = {Heath*, Sarah L. and Christenson*, Matthias P. and Oriol, Elie and Saavedra-Weisenhaus, Maia and Kohn, Jessica R. and Behnia, Rudy},
     journal = {Current Biology},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {30},
     pages = {264-275.e8},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219315775?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint},
   }

2. CoSyNe

   Linking structure to function in a model of early color processing

   Matthias P. Christenson, Sarah L. Heath, Larry Abbott, and Rudy Behnia

   Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference, 2020

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3. Neurotheory

   Probabilistic circuit model analysis for neural response inference

   Matthias P. Christenson, Rudy Behnia, and Larry Abbott

   Columbia Neurotheory Meeting, 2020