The University of Texas at Austin (2004-present)
Professor, Depts. of Neuroscience & Psychology (affiliations: Center for Perceptual Systems, Imaging Research Center, Institute for Neuroscience)
Graduate Advisor, Institute for Neuroscience PhD Program
Director, Imaging Research Center
Faculty Director, Polymathic Scholars Undergraduate Honors Program
Contact info
Office: SEA 4.238
Email: huk “at” utexas.edu
Office Phone: 512-232-5729
Education and training
Post-Doc, University of Washington (Seattle). Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics. Advisor: Mike Shadlen
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001. Dept. of Psychology (Neuroscience area). Advisor: David Heeger
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1996. Major: Psychology, Minor: Linguistics. Advisor: Frank Durgin
Recent awards and service
Elsevier / Vision Sciences Society Young Investigator Award, 2011.
COSYNE conference, Workshops Chair (w/ Adam Kohn), 2009.
Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Sciences, UT-Austin, 2009.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2008-2013.
Research support (current)
“Neural ensembles underlying natural tracking behavior” (U01-NS094330), BRAIN Initiative Grant, (Multiple PIs: N. Priebe, A. Huk, & I. Fiete; Co-I: B. Zemelman), 2015-present.
“Neural time-integration underlying higher cognitive function” (R01-EY017366), R01 Research Project Grant, National Institutes of Health / National Eye Institute (PIs: A. Huk, J. Pillow), 2008-present.
“NCS-FO: Connecting spikes to cognitive algorithms”, NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems grant (PIs: I.M. Park & A. Huk). Starting 2018.
“Motion processing with 2 eyes in 3 dimensions” (R01-EY020592), R01 Research Project Grant, National Institutes of Health / National Eye Institute (PIs: A. Huk, L. Cormack, A. Kohn), 2011-present.
“Detailed multi-neuron coding of decisions in parietal cortex”, (R01-MH099611), R01 Research Project Grant / Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience, National Institutes of Mental Health (PIs: J. Pillow, A. Huk), 2012-present.