Alex Kunin attended Stony Brook University where he received a degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of Alabama Huntsville (M.S. in computer science), the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (M.S. in mathematics) and the Pennsylvania State University (PhD in mathematics). Before joining the faculty at Creighton, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics and Data Science training program at Baylor College of Medicine. His research lies at the intersection of mathematics and neuroscience, with a focus on structure-function relationships in neural networks and applications of algebra and combinatorics for data analysis.
Itskov V., Kunin A., Rosen Z., Hyperplane Neural Codes and the Polar Complex 2020
Publications
eNeuro Weber-Langstaff Rhessa A, Srivastava Pranjal, Kunin Alexander B, Gutierrez Gabrielle J, The Oviposition Inhibitory Neuron is a Potential Hub of Multi-Circuit Integration in the Drosophila Brain 12:9, p. ENEURO.0123-25.2025 2025
Nature (London) Ding Zhuokun, Papadopoulos Stelios, Wang Eric Y., Kunin Alexander B., Tran Dat, Fu Jiakun, Chang Andersen, Fahey Paul G., Celii Brendan, Papadopoulos Christos, , Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex 640:8058, p. 459 - 469 2025
Nature (London) Celii Brendan, Kunin Alexander B., Bodor Agnes L., Patel Saumil, Bae J. Alexander, Papadopoulos Christos, Papadopoulos Stelios, Ding Zhuokun, Fahey Paul G., Wang Eric, , NEURD offers automated proofreading and feature extraction for connectomics 640:8058, p. 487 - 496 2025
Combinatorial Theory Kunin A. B., Lienkaemper C., Rosen Z., Oriented matroids and combinatorial neural codes 3:1 2023
Journal of Neuroscience Kunin A. B., Guo J., Bassler K. E., Pitkow X., Josić K., HIERARCHICAL MODULAR STRUCTURE OF THE DROSOPHILA CONNECTOME 43:36 2023