Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Appointments and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery
- Member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Contact Information
- Email Address: timothy.dunn@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University , 2015
Research Interests
Machine learning, computer vision, neurobiology, animal behavior, computational neuroscience, prognostic modeling, traumatic brain injury
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award. McKnight Foundation. 2021
- Peer Recognition Honor. Duke, Pratt School of Engineering. 2020
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Harvard University . 2017
- Certificate of Excellence in Teaching. Harvard University. 2017
- AI Watson XPrize Finalist (with team DataKind). IBM. 2017
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Harvard University . 2013
- Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation . 2010
- I.L. Chaikoff Award for Undergraduate Research. UC Berkeley . 2008
- MCB Department Citation (Best in Class). UC Berkeley. 2008
Courses Taught
- AIPI 591: Special Readings in AI for Product Innovation
- BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
- BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
In the News
- Bass Connections Team Aims for Global Health Change (Jan 20, 2023 | Bass Connections)
- Welcome the Pratt School New Faculty (Oct 26, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Timothy Dunn: Tracking Movement to Decipher Brain Activity (Jun 22, 2021 | Duke Engineering News)
- Learning to DANNCE (Apr 23, 2021 | Duke AI Health)
- Tim Dunn - The DANNCE Study (Apr 19, 2021 | Duke Forge)
- Neural Circuits at the Brain Scale (Nov 8, 2016 | Harvard MCB News)
- Calculating Time to Collision (Feb 3, 2016 | Harvard MCB News)
Representative Publications
- Li, T., K. S. Severson, F. Wang, and T. W. Dunn. “Improved 3D Markerless Mouse Pose Estimation Using Temporal Semi-supervision.” International Journal of Computer Vision 131, no. 6 (June 1, 2023): 1389–1405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-023-01756-3.
- Thomson, Eric E., Mark Harfouche, Kanghyun Kim, Pavan C. Konda, Catherine W. Seitz, Colin Cooke, Shiqi Xu, et al. “Gigapixel imaging with a novel multi-camera array microscope.” Elife 11 (December 14, 2022). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74988.
- Adil, Syed M., Lefko T. Charalambous, Shashank Rajkumar, Andreas Seas, Pranav I. Warman, Kelly R. Murphy, Shervin Rahimpour, et al. “Machine Learning to Predict Successful Opioid Dose Reduction or Stabilization After Spinal Cord Stimulation.” Neurosurgery 91, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): 272–79. https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000001969.
- Adil, Syed M., Cyrus Elahi, Dev N. Patel, Andreas Seas, Pranav I. Warman, Anthony T. Fuller, Michael M. Haglund, and Timothy W. Dunn. “Deep Learning to Predict Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes in the Low-Resource Setting.” World Neurosurg 164 (August 2022): e8–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2022.02.097.
- Kirsch, Elayna P., Alexander Suarez, Katherine E. McDaniel, Rajeev Dharmapurikar, Timothy Dunn, Shivanand P. Lad, and Michael M. Haglund. “Construct validity of the Surgical Autonomy Program for the training of neurosurgical residents.” Neurosurg Focus 53, no. 2 (August 2022): E8. https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.5.FOCUS22166.