Me

Hi, My name is Torben. I’m from Portland, Oregon and I’ve been interested in brains for as long as I can remember. I studied Neuroscience at Bates college where it was very cold, then I studied neuroscience at UC San Diego where it is very warm and now I'm working on my PhD in Neuroscience at Northwestern in Chicago where it is sometimes very warm and sometimes very cold.

Most of my research involves using digital signal processing, data science, and machine learning to investigate the neural systems underpinning olfaction and breathing in humans. I'm also pretty interested in the amygdala. I'm a member of Christina Zelano's lab at Northwestern University, where we collect and analyze intracranial electrophysiological (iEEG) recordings from epilepsy patients, imaging techniques, and behavioral experiments to address these questions. My goal is to use the results from these experiments to build scientific and clinical tools to put these ideas to good use.

I also occasionally mix house and techno music for fun and put it up here. I like to think they're good for studying and coding.
Email me! If you managed to find this somehow, I'd probably love to chat. torben.noto (at) gmail.com