NEIL COTTER

Neil Cotter has taught at the University of Utah for the past 30 years. His current teaching assignments are in the area of electronics and probability and statistics. In the past, he has taught a wide variety of classes in areas such as MATLAB programming, digital electronics, communication systems, control theory, optimization, and function approximations. He was educated at Caltech and Stanford, receiving a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and M.S. degrees in both electrical engineering and mathematics at the latter. His primary area of technical interest is nonlinear adaptive systems, especially spiking neural networks.