Alexander B . Kunin, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Contact

alexkunin@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Mathematics
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building - 539

Alexander B . Kunin, PhD

Assistant Professor

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.

Department

Mathematics

Position

Assistant Professor

General

  • 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., Fahey Paul G., Kunin Alexander B., Tran Dat, Fu Jiakun, Celii Brendan, Papadopoulos Christos, Chang Andersen, , 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 Stelios, Ding Zhuokun, Fahey Paul G., Wang Eric, Papadopoulos Christos, , NEURD offers automated proofreading and feature extraction for connectomics
    640:8058, p. 487 - 496 2025
  • 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
  • Combinatorial Theory
    Kunin A. B., Lienkaemper C., Rosen Z., Oriented matroids and combinatorial neural codes
    3:1 2023