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Bagarinao, Epifanio Jr.

Epifanio Bagarinao, Jr. is currently affiliated with the Neuroscience Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. His research fields include grid computing, real-time functional MRI analysis, and machine learning.

He received his Doctor of Science in Biophysical Engineering from Osaka University, Japan where he was working on the reconstruction of bifurcation structures of dynamical systems from time series data. After his graduate study, he became a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellow at the Department of Systems and Human Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University.

Dr. Bagarinao obtained his Master of Science in Physics in 1995 from the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines. His Bachelor's degree (Applied Physics) was also obtained in the same institution in 1993.

Research

Dr. Bagarinao is currently working on the real-time analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series. He developed an incremental algorithm to estimate general linear models, a versatile and powerful tool in the analysis of fMRI time series. Using this method, a real-time fMRI analysis system using a PC cluster was developed.

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