Addresses

 voice : 301-594-9196
 FAX   : 301-402-1370
 e-mail: rwcox@nih.gov
 WWW   : http://afni.nimh.nih.gov

Education

• 1972-1976:   B.S. in Mathematics (with honors)
  California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

• 1984-1988:   Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
  California Institute of Technology (Caltech)   (Advisor: Donald S. Cohen)
  (awarded the W.P. Carey & Co. Prize in Applied Mathematics for an outstanding doctor's dissertation)

• 1989-1991:   Postdoctoral Fellow
  Computer Research Group   (Mentor: Patrick S. Hagan)
  Los Alamos National Laboratory

Professional and Academic Employment

• 1977-1980:   KPFF Consulting Engineers, Seattle WA
        Computer Programmer
        [Structural Engineering and Finite Element software development]

• 1980-1981:   McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, Huntington Beach CA
        Engineer-Scientist
        [Kalman filtering for satellite guidance; radar systems simulation]

• 1981-1989:   Dynamics Technology, Torrance CA
        Senior Computer Scientist
        [Simulation and data analysis of electromagnetic fields in the ocean;
        Analysis and simulation of radar imaging systems]

• 1991-1993:   Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis IN
        Assistant Professor, Depts. of Mathematical Sciences and of Computer and Information Science

• 1993-2001:   Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
        Biophysics Research Institute
        1993-1994:   Senior Scientist
        1994-1998:   Assistant Professor
        1998-2001:   Associate Professor

• 2001-????:   National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda MD
        Director, Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, Intramural Research Program
        [Development and support of functional neuroimaging analysis methods]

Invited Lectures and Workshops [since joining NIMH]

• Jun 2001: FMRI training course, Human Brain Mapping meeting, Brighton.
• Jan-Mar 2002: FMRI analysis training course given in 10 lectures and hands-on workshops, NIH.
  (Attended by about 40 researchers from NIMH, NINDS, NIAAA, etc.)
• May 2002: FMRI analysis methods training course, ISMRM annual meeting, Honolulu.
• Sep-Nov 2002: Repeat of FMRI analysis training course from Jan-Mar, NIH.
• Oct 2002: FMRI software workshop at University of Pennsylvania.
• Oct 2002: FMRI course at Medical College of Wisconsin.
• Jan-Apr 2003: Another repeat of FMRI analysis training course, NIH.
• May 2003: Three hour AFNI class in FSL/FreeSurfer course at UCLA.
• July 2003: One day AFNI class at University of Iowa brain mapping workshop.
• Sep 2003: Presentation at Marian Smoluchowski Symposium, Zakopane, Poland.
• Oct 2003: Five day AFNI workshop, Università di Pisa.
• Jan 2004: Three day AFNI workshop, Princeton University.
• Feb 2004: Four day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• May 2004: Educational lecture at ISMRM annual meeting, Kyoto, Japan.
• July 2004: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Jan 2005: Two seminars at Caltech.
• Feb 2005: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Aug 2005: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Sep 2005: Two-and-a-half day AFNI workshop, Aston University; 90 minute presentation at the fMRI Experience symposium in Birmingham UK.
• Mar 2006: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• May 2006: FMRI educational workshop, ISMRM meeting, Seattle.
  [Was voted "Outstanding Teacher" for this workshop]
• Jun 2006: Five day AFNI workshop, Università di Pisa, Italy.
• Sep 2006: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Jan 2007: Two seminars at UT Houston and Rice University.
• Feb 2007: Five day AFNI workshop, Hanyang University, Seoul.
• Mar 2007: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• May 2007: FMRI educational workshop, ISMRM meeting, Berlin.
• May 2007: Invited presentation, "Clinical FMRI" workshop, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Germany.
• Oct 2007: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Nov 2007: Three day AFNI workshop, NIH. (For students who were wait-listed for the Oct class.)
• Feb 2008: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.
• Sep 2008: Five day AFNI workshop, NIH.

NIH Review Panels

• May 3 2001: Reviewer for CSR Special Emphasis Panel SSS-Q(02).
• Mar 19 2002: Reviewer for CSR Special Emphasis Panel SSS-E(05).
• Oct 23 2002: Reviewer for Human Brain Project panel SSS-E(95).
• May 26-27 2004: Reviewer for National Centers for Biomedical Computing (Roadmap) CSR Special Emphasis Panel BST-A(55).
• June 9 2004: Member of contract review panel LXF-L(54) for NIDA IRP.
• Dec 13 2004: Reviewer for Bioengineering Research Partnerships CSR Special Emphasis Panel BST-A(50).
• Nov 10 2005: Reviewer for Human Brain Project Neurotechnology/Engineering CSR Special Emphasis Panel MDCN-K(55).
• Jun 21 2006: Reviewer for Neuroinformatics/Imaging CSR Special Emphasis Panel MDCN-K(51).
• Jun 27 2006: Chair of contract review panel for NIBIB ERP (Neuroscience Blueprint) for NITRC.
• Oct 31 2006: Reviewer for Neuroinformatics/Imaging CSR Special Emphasis Panel MDCN-K(52).

Refereed Publications

1. RW Cox and DS Cohen.
   A mathematical model for stress-driven diffusion in polymers.
   Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Edition, 27: 589-602, 1989.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 24 times [by Dec 2006].

2. RW Cox.
   Shocks in a model for stress-driven diffusion.
   SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 50: 1284-1299, 1990.

3. PS Hagan and RW Cox.
   Productivity enhancement in hydrofractured oil reservoirs.
   European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 1: 26-46, 1990.

4. RW Cox.
   Stress-assisted diffusion: a free boundary problem.
   SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 51: 1522-1537, 1991.

5. RW Cox, A Jesmanowicz, and JS Hyde.
   Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging.
   Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 33: 230-236, 1995.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 71 times [by Dec 2006].

6. EC Wong, RW Cox, and AW Song.
   Optimized isotropic diffusion weighting.
   Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 34: 139-143, 1995.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 59 times [by Dec 2006].

7. EA DeYoe, GJ Carman, PA Bandettini, S Glickman, J Wieser, RW Cox, D Miller, and J Neitz.
   Mapping striate and extrastriate visual areas in human cerebral cortex.
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 93: 2382-2386, 1996.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 337 times [by Dec 2006].

8. RW Cox.
   AFNI: Software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages.
   Computers and Biomedical Research, 29: 162-173, 1996.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 843 times [by Dec 2006].
     •   For further information about the AFNI software package, see http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni

9. FZ Yetkin, TL Mcauliffe, RW Cox, and VM Haughton.
   Test-retest precision of functional MR in sensory and motor task activation.
   American Journal of Neuroradiology, 17: 95-98, 1996.
       N.B.: This paper has been cited 61 times [by Dec 2006].

10. O Yetkin, FZ Yetkin, VM Haughton, and RW Cox.
    Use of functional MR to map language in multilingual volunteers.
    American Journal of Neuroradiology, 17: 473-477, 1996.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 28 times [by Dec 2006].

11. A Li, FZ Yetkin, RW Cox, and VM Haughton.
    Ipsilateral hemisphere activation during motor and sensory tasks.
    American Journal of Neuroradiology, 17: 651-655, 1996.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 38 times [by Dec 2006].

12. FZ Yetkin, VM Haughton, RW Cox, JS Hyde, RM Birn, EC Wong, and R Prost.
    Effect of motion outside the field of view on functional MR.
    American Journal of Neuroradiology, 17: 1005-1009, 1996.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 31 times [by Dec 2006].

13. JR Binder, JA Frost, TA Hammeke, SM Rao, and RW Cox.
    Function of the left planum temporale in auditory and linguistic processing.
    Brain, 119: 1239-1247, 1996.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 175 times [by Dec 2006].

14. WM Mueller, FZ Yetkin, TA Hammeke, GL Morris, SJ Swanson, K Reichert, RW Cox, and VM Haughton.
    Functional magnetic resonance imaging mapping of the motor cortex in patients with cerebral tumors.
    Neurosurgery, 39: 515-520, 1996.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 105 times [by Dec 2006].

15. JR Binder, JA Frost, TA Hammeke, RW Cox, SM Rao, and T Prieto.
    Human brain language areas identified by functional magnetic resonance imaging.
    Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 353-362, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 422 times [by Dec 2006].

16. SM Rao, JA Bobholz, TA Hammeke, AC Rosen, SJ Woodley, JM Cunningham, RW Cox, EA Stein, and JR Binder.
    Functional MRI evidence for subcortical participation in conceptual reasoning skills.
    NeuroReport, 8: 1987-1993, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 57 times [by Dec 2006].

17. SM Rao, DL Harrington, KY Haaland, JA Bobholz, RW Cox, and JR Binder.
    Distributed neural systems underlying the timing of movements.
    Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 5528-5535, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 206 times [by Dec 2006].

18. R Zhang, RW Cox, and JS Hyde.
    The effect of magnetization transfer on functional MRI signals.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 38: 187-192, 1997.

19. MS Beauchamp, RW Cox, and EA DeYoe.
    Graded effects of spatial and featural attention on human area MT and associated motion processing areas.
    Journal of Neurophysiology, 78: 516-520, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 121 times [by Dec 2006].

20. FZ Yetkin, WM Mueller, GL Morris, TL Mcauliffe, JL Ulmer, RW Cox, DL Daniels, and VM Haughton.
    Functional MR activation correlated with intraoperative cortical mapping.
    American Journal of Neuroradiology, 18: 1311-1315, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 82 times [by Dec 2006].

21. RW Cox and JS Hyde.
    Software tools for analysis and visualization of FMRI Data.
    NMR in Biomedicine, 10: 171-178, 1997.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 139 times [by Dec 2006].

22. RM Birn, PA Bandettini, A Jesmanowicz, RW Cox, and R Shaker.
    Magnetic field changes in the human brain due to swallowing or speaking.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 40: 55-60, 1998.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 46 times [by Dec 2006].

23. JS Hyde, HS Mchaourab, TG Camenisch, JJ Ratke, RW Cox, and W Froncisz.
    Electron paramagnetic resonance detection by time-locked subsampling.
    Review of Scientific Instruments, 69: 2622-2628, 1998.

        N.B.: This paper has been cited 10 times [by Dec 2006].

24. MK Kern, RM Birn, S Jaradeh, A Jesmanowicz, RW Cox, JS Hyde, and R Shaker.
    Identification and characterization of cerebral cortical response to esophageal mucosal acid exposure.
    Gastroenterology, 115: 1353-1362, 1998.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 43 times [by Dec 2006].

25. KM Donahue, J Van Kylen, S Guven, A El-Bershawi, W-M Luh, PA Bandettini, RW Cox, JS Hyde, and AH Kissebah.
    Simultaneous gradient-echo/spin-echo EPI of graded ischemia in human skeletal muscle.
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 8: 1106-1113, 1998.

26. FZ Yetkin, JL Ulmer, W Mueller, RW Cox, MM Klosek, and VM Haughton.
    Functional magnetic resonance imaging assessment of the risk of postoperative hemiparesis after excision of cerebral tumors.
    International Journal of Neuroradiology, 4: 253-257, 1998.

27. RM Birn, PA Bandettini, RW Cox, and R Shaker.
    Event-related FMRI of tasks involving brief motion.
    Human Brain Mapping, 7: 106-114, 1999.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 80 times [by Dec 2006].

28. R Tong and RW Cox.
    Rotation of NMR images using the 2D chirp-z transform.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 41: 253-256, 1999.

29. JA Frost, JR Binder, JA Springer, TA Hammeke, PSF Bellgowan, SM Rao, and RW Cox.
    Language processing is strongly left lateralized in both sexes - evidence from functional MRI.
    Brain, 122 (part 2): 199-208, 1999.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 132 times [by Dec 2006].

30. JR Binder, JA Frost, TA Hammeke, PSF Bellgowan, SM Rao, and RW Cox.
    Conceptual processing during the conscious resting state: a functional MRI study.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11: 80-95, 1999.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 186 times [by Dec 2006].

31. B Crosson B, SM Rao, SJ Woodley, AC Rosen, TA Hammeke, JA Bobholz, A Mayer, JM Cunningham, SA Fuller, JR Binder, RW Cox, and EA Stein.
    Mapping of semantic, phonological, and orthographic verbal working memory in normal adults with FMRI.
    Neuropsychology, 13: 171-187, 1999.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 33 times [by Dec 2006].

32. RW Cox and R Tong.
    Two and three dimensional image rotation using the FFT.
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 8: 1297-1299, 1999.

33. MM Klosek and RW Cox.
    Steady-state currents in sharp stochastic ratchets.
    Physical Review E, 60: 3727-3735, 1999.

34. RW Cox and A Jesmanowicz.
    Real-time 3D image registration for functional MRI.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 42: 1014-1018, 1999.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 132 times [by Dec 2006].

35. RW Cox.
    k-space partition diagrams: a graphical tool for analysis of MRI pulse sequences.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 43: 160-162, 2000.

36. DL Harrington, SM Rao, KY Haaland, JA Bobholz, AR Mayer, JR Binder, and RW Cox.
    Specialized neural systems underlying representations of movements.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12: 56-77, 2000.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 58 times [by Dec 2006].

37. PA Bandettini and RW Cox.
    Event-related fMRI contrast when using constant interstimulus interval: theory and experiment.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 43: 540-548, 2000.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 65 times [by Dec 2006].

38. ZS Saad, KM Ropella, RW Cox, and EA DeYoe.
    Analysis and use of FMRI response delays.
    Human Brain Mapping, 13: 74-93, 2001.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 38 times [by Dec 2006].

39. GE Sarty, R Bennett, and RW Cox.
    Direct reconstruction of non-Cartesian k-space data using a non-uniform fast Fourier transform.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 45: 908-915, 2001.

40. MK Kern, RM Birn, S Jaradeh, A Jesmanowicz, RW Cox, JS Hyde, and R Shaker.
    Swallow-related cerebral cortical activity maps are not specific to deglutition.
    American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 280: G531-G538, 2001.

41. RM Birn, RW Cox, and PA Bandettini.
    Detection versus estimation in event-related fMRI: choosing the optimal stimulus timing.
    NeuroImage, 15: 252-264, 2002.
        N.B.: This paper has been cited 27 times [by Dec 2006].

42. V Roopchansingh, RW Cox, A Jesmanowicz, BD Ward, and JS Hyde.
    Single-shot magnetic field mapping and applications.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 50: 839-843, 2003.

43. RM Birn, RW Cox, and PA Bandettini.
    Experimental designs and processing strategies for fMRI studies involving overt verbal responses.
    NeuroImage, 23: 1046-1058, 2004.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.07.039
44. ZS Saad, G Chen, RC Reynolds, PP Christidis, KR Hammett, PSF Bellgowan, and RW Cox.
    FIAC Analysis According to AFNI and SUMA.
    Human Brain Mapping, 27: 417-424, 2006.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20247
45. ZS Saad, DR Glen, G Chen, MS Beauchamp, R Desai, and RW Cox.
    A new method for improving functional-to-structural MRI alignment using local Pearson correlation.
    NeuroImage, 44: 839-848, 2009.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.037

Recent Conference Presentations

• ZS Saad, RC Reynolds, RW Cox, B Argall, S Japee.
  SUMA: An Interface for Surface-Based Intra- and Inter-Subject Analysis with AFNI.
  International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 2004, Arlington.
• RW Cox, J Ashburner, H Breman, K Fissel, C Haselgrove, CJ Holmes, JL Lancaster, DE Rex, SM Smith, JB Woodward, SC Strother.
  A (Sort of) New Image Data Format Standard: NIfTI-1.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2004, Budapest.
• RW Cox, ZS Saad, PP Christidis, KR Hammett, RC Reynolds, and G Chen.
  AFNI+SUMA & FIAC
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2005, Toronto.
• ZS Saad, J Otwinowski, and RW Cox.
  Sampling Requirements of Highly Convoluted Brain Surfaces with FMRI.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2005, Toronto.
• RW Cox and LA McCall.
  Non-Fourier Reconstruction Can Reduce Image Dropouts.
  ISMRM Annual Meeting, May 2004, Kyoto.
• RW Cox and DR Glen.
  Efficient, Robust, Nonlinear, and Guaranteed Positive Definite Diffusion Tensor Estimation.
  ISMRM Annual Meeting, May 2006, Seattle.
• PP Christidis and RW Cox.
  A Step-by-Step Guide to Cortical Surface Modeling of the Nonhuman Primate Brain Using FreeSurfer.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2006, Florence.
• RW Cox, ZS Saad, RC Reynolds, G Chen, and DR Glen.
  What's New in AFNI-Land.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2006, Florence.
• ZS Saad, RC Reynolds, and RW Cox.
  Talk To Me: Inter-Program Communication for Brain Data Analysis.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2006, Florence.
• RW Cox.
  Unified Mathematical Model of q-Space and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
  ISMRM Annual Meeting, May 2007, Berlin.
• RW Cox and ZS Saad.
  Blurring fMRI Data to a Specified Smoothness: in 2D, in 3D, and on Surface Models.
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2007, Chicago.
• ZS Saad, RC Reynolds, DR Glen, G Chen, S Laconte, J Molony, and RW Cox.
  What’s New In AFNI-Space And SUMA-Land
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2007, Chicago.
• G Chen, DR Glen, ZS Saad, and RW Cox.
  Model Validation and Automated Search in FMRI Path Analysis.
  What’s New In AFNI-Space And SUMA-Land
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2007, Chicago.
• RW Cox, ZS Saad, DR Glen, MS Beauchamp, and R Desai.
  False Sense of EPI-to-Structural Alignment with Common Cross-Modality Registration Methods
  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2008, Melbourne.

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised

1. Rongyan Zhang.
   Functional MRI Studies Using Magnetization Transfer,
   September 1998.
   [Current Position: Senior Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin]

2. Rasmus Matthias Birn.
   Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Presence of Task-Induced Motion,
   October 1999.
   [Current Position: Staff Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health]

3. Raoqiong Tong Bennett.
   Power Spectral Density Imaging Beyond the Nyquist Limit,
   December 2000.
   [Current Position: Staff Physicist, Johns Hopkins University]

Funding History

• 5R29NS034798 - INTERACTIVE AND REAL-TIME FUNCTIONAL MR NEUROIMAGING (PI) - 1996-2001

Miscellaneous

• July 2007: The Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Director's Award

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