Academic history

Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL August 2006-August 2008

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics Tulane University, New Orleans LA May 2004

Employment history

Research Programmer for Dr. Natalia Trayanova July 2004-August 2006 Department of Biomedical Engineering Tulane University, New Orleans LA

Research Programmer for Dr. Natalia Trayanova June 2008-present Institute of Computational Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD

Relevant experiences

• Over four years experience with Dr. Trayanova's

Publication list

Awards

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Need to add paper Natalia sent me on the 18th.

I presented a poster to the January 2005 American Mathematical Society undergraduate poster section:

• Interpolation Kernels That Satisfy Discrete Moment Conditions

Robert L. Miller, Robert Blake, Luis O. Perez, Chris Duncan, B.S, Ricardo Cortez, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Layfayette LA, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao,

We currently have a paper in review with the same title.

Proceedings & Presentations

I am listed as a co-author for the following 6 abstracts accepted at the Heart Rhythm Societies 2006 conference:

• Decreasing LV postshock excitable gap lowers the upper limit of vulnerability
  • Jason Constantino, B.S., Robert Blake, B.S., Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
• Fibrosis Decreases Activation Time During Defibrillation Shocks
  • Molly Maleckar, B.S., Robert Blake, B.S., and Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
• Reentry in surviving epicardium coupled to depolarized midmyocardial tissue: a simulation of arrhythmogenesis during phase 1B
  • Xiao Jie, B.S., Blanca Rodríguez, Ph.D., Robert Blake, B.S., Joris R. De Groot, M.D., Ph.D., Ruben Coronel, M.D., Ph.D. and Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Vulnerability to electric shocks in regional ischemia
  • Blanca Rodriguez, Ph.D., Brock Tice, B.S., Robert Blake, B.S., James Eason, Ph.D., David Gavaghan, Ph.D. and Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D.. Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
• Myocardial Stretch Alters the Pattern of Post-shock Activity
  • Viacheslav Gurev, Ph.D., Robert Blake, B.S., Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

I presented at HRS 2006:

• The role of transmural ventricular heterogeneities in cardiac vulnerability to electric shocks
  • Thushka Maharaj 1, Blanca Rodriguez 1, Robert Blake 2, Natalia Trayanova 3, David Gavaghan 1
  • Complete postal addresses:
  • 1 Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PG, UK
  • 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans LA 70118
  • 3 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218

Papers

I am co-author on the following papers

• Title: The role of transmural ventricular heterogeneities in cardiac vulnerability to electric shocks
• Names of authors: Thushka Maharaj1, Blanca Rodriguez1∗, Robert Blake2, Natalia Trayanova3, David Gavaghan1
• Complete postal addresses:
  • 1 Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PG, UK
  • 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans LA 70118
  • 3 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218
• Where: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Vol 96/1-3 pp 321-338
• http://www.citeulike.org/user/rblake/article/2547741

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