Hi everyone! I’m Zoë, a PhD student at King’s College London. Looking forward to learning about open fMRI methods with you all!
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Hello, I’m Miao Chang, and I’m a medical graduate student. My topic is neonatal neurodevelopment, which is mainly to predict the outcome of neurodevelopment based on structural and functional data.
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Hello everyone, I’m Caroline Koehler, PhD student at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Germany. I work with MRI data from diseased pediatric patients who have abnormal tissue contrast due to a lack of myelination, resulting in registration difficulties. I’m excited about this platform and hope to discuss some ideas.
Best, Caroline
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Hello everyone,
I am Sanika Dixit, currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree under the University of Mumbai. I have a skillset of various programming languages, including Python, Java, C, C++. I am also a neuroscience and computational neuroscience enthusiast. I am looking forward to be a contributor in the upcoming GSoC 2023 program, where INCF is a mentor organization. I would love to connect with a mentor or even other fellow participants, it would be amazing to collect tips and have a healthy discussion. Looking forward to chat with the community!
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Hello, I am Rishi Kejriwal, a Computer Science and Engineering Student at IIT Roorkee, and I would love to contribute to INCF for the upcoming #GSoC 2023. Currently I am skilled in JavaScript, HTML,CSS, React JS, python, Django and C++, and I would like to put my knowledge to use in contributing to open source. It would be great if you can share some points how to get started with contributing to INCF.
Thanks.
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Hi NeuroStars,
I’m a PhD student studying Clinical Neuropsychology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. I work at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease, and I’m studying rs-fMRI characteristics of SuperAgers. Before graduate school, I worked in the #freesurfer lab at MGH/MIT.
I’m now trying to implement an open source pipeline for rs-fMRI. So far I’ve worked with #fmriprep and #xcp_d. In the past I’ve used Fs-Fast for FC analyses, but I’m now looking to find a #bids formatted tool going forward. I’m also trying to become proficient in #nibabel and #nilearn and appreciate any tips!
Happy to be a member of this wonderful community!
Cheers,
Bram
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Hi everyone, my name is Anurag Bhandari and I’m a second year engineering student. I’m a AI enthusiast and I am exploring this amazing domains for some months now. I also love open source and I look forward to contribute in some amazing incf porjects. I found about about incf from the official GSOC page and I would really love to contribute to incf projects under #gsoc 2023.
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Hi all,
I’m a clinical neuroimaging researcher focusing on impulsivity, aggression, and suicidality in schizophrenia with an emphasis on connectivity approaches. I am glad to be here among colleagues with similar interests.
Best wishes,
Matt Hoptman
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Hello everyone . I am Vasu Arora , 3rd year engineering undergrad looking forward to contribute to the INCF cool projects. I am good with HTML , CSS , Machine Learning , Python and web dev. I will be really glad to get some advice and guidance for the same.
I will be waiting for your reply.
Email : shrisw2002@gmail.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/aroravasu123/
GitHub : 123Vasu · GitHub
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Hello and Happy new year,
My name is Seyed (Yahya) Shirazi; I am currently a postdoc at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN), UCSD working with Scott Makeig and Arnaud Delorme on EEGLAB and MoBI.
My past experience has been around high-density EEG during locomotion and rehabilitation. You can find me on GitHub under neuromechanist (Seyed Yahya Shirazi) · GitHub.
All the best
Yahya
Hey everyone, I am Saransh. It’s been lovely realizing how diverse this community truly is!
I am currently a postgraduate student at Ashoka University (IN), concentrating on Computer Science and Psychology. Prior to this, I had worked for around 2.5 years at a leading security company as a software engineer and graduated from BITS Pilani (IN) with a focus on Computer Science and Finance. I am currently working on a project in Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing.
Although I have a fair experience in Computer Science and Software Engineering, I am very keen to dive deeper into the endlessly fascinating intersection of Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning and Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience. Additionally and unfortunately, I haven’t been very active in open-source communities so far. In this light, I am trying to rectify this and hoping to get started with contributing to the brilliant INCF’s open-source projects sooner than later, aiming for the upcoming #gsoc 2023.
Kindly advise if you have any pointers for beginners or just say hello! Looking forward to being an active part of this community.
Bound and rebound!! 
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Hello Everyone,
I am Mohammad Azhar Khan, currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree under the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela. I am interested in Data Science and Machine Learning. I am excited to be a part of this community of neuroscientists. I have always been fascinated by the intricacies of the human brain, and have recently developed an interest in the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. I believe that the combination of these two fields has the potential to unlock a deeper understanding of the brain and its functions, as well as lead to new and innovative methods for analyzing and interpreting neural data.
So far, I haven’t participated in many open-source communities. In light of this, I’m attempting to correct it and expecting to start assisting the INCF’s open-source initiatives as soon as possible, with a focus on the approaching #gsoc 2023.
I’m looking forward to contributing to this community.
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Hi Yahya,
Hope you are doing well. I have watched the Arnaud Delorme preprocessing EEG data tutorial on Youtube. Now I would like to work on EEG data by the functional network method. Would you suggest to me the best way to start this journey?
All the best,
Neda
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Hello everyone,
This is Sai Rithvik Padma, a Computer Science undergrad at BITS Pilani. I recently started doing open-source contributions. Can you suggest some good first issues to start contributing to the organization?
I am a frontend developer with a tech stack - HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery, React.js, Node.js, python, c, and java. I am always open to learning new technologies to become better in development.
My GitHub profile link: Rithvik-padma (Sai Rithvik Padma) · GitHub
Hoping to hear back from you soon!
Thanking You,
Sai Rithvik Padma
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Hi Neda,
Thanks for reaching out. I am glad that you found Arno’s tutorials; they are very helpful.
I believe that there are also resources regarding functional connectivity analysis through EEGLAB’s SIFT toolbox and ROI connect.
Please note that from my naive pov, channel-level functional connectivity (and network analysis) is not a good representation of brain connectivity, as neither the sources of the channel-level activity nor their implications are sufficiently defined. The two toolboxes above have different approaches to localizing the EEG activity and then trying to find the functional connectivity in the source domain.
You can start with source localization of your data and then use either toolbox to estimate the functional connectivity.
Good luck and all the best,
Yahya
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Hi everybody,
I am Neda. I am a master’s student in Physics, Complex systems @ IASBS in Zanjan, Iran. For my master’s thesis, I am working on EEG data collected from people with anxiety disorder and studying the effect of different types of mindfulness therapy on the subjects. From the EEG data, we derive the functional networks in different frequency bands before and after the therapy and use graph theoretical measures to inspect the changes in the functional network and evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy. I am a super enthusiastic one in neuroscience.
I would be happy if you share with me any toolbox or software or tutorials about brain functional networks which will help me during my project.
Thank you in advance for your help.
All the best,
Neda
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Hello everybody, my name is Dimitar!
I am an undergraduate student at Minerva University. I am here to learn more about neuroscience and python-based tools for analysis of neuroscience data. Over the past few months I was involved in a meta-analysis research project at National Taiwan University.
I wanted to ask for help with using the package NiMARE. I am having trouble with getting data for a few particular studies by using their IDs. Would appreciate it if someone could help out.
Apart from that, I am excited to meet the neuroscience community and exchange cool ideas!
Cheers!
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Hi everyone, I’m Saugat Kannojia, an undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I am broadly interested in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I am very keen to dive deeper into the intersection of Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning and Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience.
To further my understanding of the field, I undertook some projects on Machine learning and Data Science and realised the implications of this field in the real world. I’m fluent in Python, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks like Node.js, Flutter, TensorFlow and Keras. I love solving challenging problems and love to learn new things.
This year I am applying for GSoC in a project where I can use and improve upon my Deep Learning and Machine Learning skills and develop some new skills.
I’ve gone through previous year’s projects of INCF, and I am looking forward to contributing to the Organisation and learning from others here. Can you suggest some good first issues to start contributing to the organisation?
My GitHub profile link - friedrice123 - Saugat Kannojia
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Hey everyone, hope you all are good.
I am Rajagopalan, a CSE sophomore at Amrita University.
I primarily build full stack web applications (Next js, Typescript, React, Node, Express, Mongo), and also like building Mobile apps(Flutter).
I came across thus space and found out that it aligns with my interest towards open source. Looking forward to knowing you all growing togehter.
Cheers 
My github - rv602 (Rajagopalan) · GitHub
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Hii,
I am Adiba, a 2nd year biotechnology student, at BITS Pilani, Dubai, apart from research field, i am passionate about coding and AI
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