Hi everyone! My name is Rebecca White, and I’m a first year PhD student studying visual perception in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. My research uses psychophysical approaches to understand what’s going on in the visual system when we view optical illusions. In particular, I’m interested in motion induced blindness and binocular rivalry. I’ve also been an artist most of my life, so I enjoy drawing, painting, and photography. Because of this, I began my PhD with a strong intuitive understanding of vision, and I had a neuroscience focus in my Psychology bachelors, but I’m still quite new to some of the more technical aspects of this field (i.e. programming and math). I’m hoping to strengthen these skills during NMA, and to meet new people with similar interests!
I’m so excited to embark on this journey with you all!
Hi everyone!
My name is Liza, and I am an incoming PhD student from Russia. I’m curious about machine learning and its biological application, especially in neuroscience. I was working on creating noradrenergic and serotoninergic neuron-specific viral vectors to study stress and depression in rats with chemogenetic and optogenetic methods. But the more I acquaint with the world of coding, the more it fascinates me, so I want to move into bioinformatics, data analysis and modelling. I’m interested in how our brain works and the possibility of making artificial intelligence on this base (since I read Azimov). I suppose that here I will structurize my thoughts, take inspiration by listening to researchers in computational biology and acquire modern methods of brain study.
Very much looking forward to Neuromatch Academy!
Hi everyone,
I am Azba Shaikh, project Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India. I graduated with M.Sc in Cognitive Science in 2019 from IIT Gandhinagar and I’m Currently looking for PhD opportunities in Behavioral Neuroscience and looking forward to work with fMRI as a tool for studying motor control and in motor rehabilitation.
I am extremely interested towards motor rehabilitation and thus preparing myself during this pandemic for the same.
I have experience with MATLAB in designing behavioral experiments as well as their data collection. I’m a newbie with respect to Python and have no knowledge about Machine Learning and Computational models used with fMRI data or any behavioral data. But, I’m always eager to learn new things and challenge myself, Thus, this is the great opportunity for me to do so.
I’m very excited to participate in NMA and enlighten myself with the knowledge and skills as well as to communicate with you all.
Thank you all,
Looking forward to meet you guys.
Hi all,
I’m Zach Zeisler, and I’m a rising second-year PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I previously attended Mercer University, where I received my BS in Neuroscience and my BA in Latin. At Mercer, I studied the neural basis of play behavior in rats. In my current position at Sinai, I work with non-human primates, studying the role of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in decision-making and other complex behaviors.
I have done some work in MATLAB, and I am working vigorously to try to get my Python up to speed for the start of the Academy. I’m especially interested in learning how to work with fMRI data.
Excited to be part of #neuromatch-academy as a student in the intensive track!
I’m Jesse Parent and I’m currently doing research in Orthogonal Research & Education Lab with PI Bradly Alicea. I’m part of the Representational Brains & Phenotypes group along with helping to manage various other projects, including our small-group study associated with NMA itself. I’m currently applying to gradschool and ideally PhD programs in computation+cognition.
What Neuromatch is doing quite inspiring, from the conferences to the academy itself, and I’m proud to be a part of it however I can be. Glad to see you all here, too - I think this will be very important for the future of education and collaboration.
Hi everyone¡
I’m Pablo. I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of Barcelona in Spain. I’m working with fMRI more specifically in connectivity using dynamic causal modeling in patients with some psychiatric pathologies.
See you in the forums!
Pablo
My name is Arda Fidanci, I’m just graduated from Department of Psychology at Akdeniz University. I have been a part of Akdeniz Psychology Research Lab. My research interest are centred socail and cognitive neuroscience. My research topics are face/emotion perception, mirror neuron system (mu rhythm suppression) and lateralization. I’m using neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods. I can say that I’m an EEG data analysis and statistical data analysis enthusiast. Therefore, I would like to integrate my research interests with computational neuroscience methods. I believe that I could gain deeper insight into the mechanisms of the brain by using computational methods as a tool.
Feel free to look at my CV to learn more about me!
Hi, I’m Temitope (he/him) , a PhD student of Computational Biophysics at the University of South Florida. Specifically, I’m investigating the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s) from both a theoretical and computational perspective. Outside of research, I am passionate about football, new technologies and science communication.
My name is Zeeshan and I am a first year Neuroscience PhD student at McGill University in Montreal. I use miniscope calcium imaging combined with touchscreen operant behavioural tests to study learning and memory at the single cell and population level in freely behaving mice. I know the very basics of machine learning, and am hoping to develop a stronger intuition on computational neuroscience methods to better tackle my data and form stronger research questions. Previously, did my Masters at McMaster University studying the sound localization properties of auditory neurons in bats using single unit ephys . Also have some experience studying models of PTSD using deep brain stimulation in rodents. I enjoy nature, biking, and playing music on instruments I’ve neglected to practice since academia consumed my life (piano, guitar, and opera) .
My name is Carina and I am a PhD student at the MPI Leipzig and Charite Berlin. My interests are in consciousness, tactile processing and decision making and it’s neural correlates. I also want to investigate brain-body interactions in that context. I mainly use R and Python but I started out with Matlab. I am a Bayesian. Very much looking forward to meeting all of you.
I’m a second-year PhD student at WashU and an aspiring electrophysiologist. Since I started engaging in in vivo electrophysiology I’ve realized more and more that being able to efficiently handle big datasets is a must for any electrophysiologist. Hence I hope that NMA will help me sharpen my current and develop new computational skills. I am especially interested in exploring the computational properties of neuronal networks by comparing computational models to electrophysiology data.
My name is Dean. I’m an applied mathematics research masters student at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, where I’ve been trying to understand aspects of reward-based learning in biologically-inspired models of spiking neural networks.
I’m keen to learn about handling and interpreting neural data (in python). I am particularly interested in the mathematical aspects of neuroscience. And I’m recently finding BCI technology to be really interesting!
I’m looking forward to learning with and getting to know you all in these next few weeks.
My name is Davide Momi a PhD student from University of Chieti, Italy. I’m currently attending a period abroad as a visiting PhD student at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston (Harvard Medical School).
I work with both neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI, DWI etc.) and electrophysiological (EEG) data and non-invasive brain stimulation (e.g. TMS, TES). The main goal of my project is to predict TMS signal propagation based on tractography and electrophysiological measures, mainly obtained via source analysis reconstruction.
It’s pretty awesome to see how many interesting people are here.
I simply cannot wait to learn new topics and to meet you all in the next few weeks
Hello!
My name is Rocio Barriga. I am a graduated medical doctor from Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I moved to Chicago more than a year ago. I did one year inteship in the department of neurosurgery in Bolivia and I have some clinical neurophysiology experience. In my practice I am IOM assistant.
I am interested in pursuing research in neuroscience to develop new treatments and cures for neurological diseases. I would like to develop a knowledge of quantitative methods to explore problems related to neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery medical practices. I am very interested in exploring the possibility to reprogram somatic cells into iPS and then into specialized neurons. I am also very curious to know more about optogenetics.
I am very excited to start this course, I don’t know much about coding in general but I am taking some python classes online.
I’m Caleb Holt, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Ahmadian lab where I modeled the visual cortex. My work focused on understanding the interplay of dynamics and connectivity structures within that cortex. To that end, I studied under what connectivity structures certain oscillations (e.g. gamma oscillations) were reproduced, and how including the dynamics of the cortex produced more biologically plausible connections from the thalamus (previous theories included only the dynamics of the thalamus itself).
In my free time, I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee and the outdoors. I’m currently applying for industry jobs and hoping to make some connections through this program! Looking forward to working with you all!
Hello everyone,
I’m Junda Zhu, a 2nd year PhD student in Wake Forest School of Medicine. I study working memory and response inhibition with non-human primates using electrophysiology and imaging. So happy to meet you all in the NMA course!
Hi all, I’m Euni, a Ph.D. student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research interest is to study how the motor cortex encodes sequential movement. I want to study computational skills. Looking forward to meeting you all in NMA.
Hi. I’m Ray and quite new to neuroscience. I decided to join the participatory track of NMA 2020 as a quick intro to the topic. Academically, I have a BSc in computing science with a minor in philosophy.
My interests are currently in the limits of knowledge and the extent to which these can be expressed in models common to artificial and biological intelligence. My interests in bi are in dynamical systems which exhibit chaotic behaviours, how these are modelled, and in particular, how these models may be applied to ai.
If anyone has worked with neural radon transforms (like the ai version here), and the minimal chaotic neural circuit models of Miller, I’d appreciate if I could pick a few of your neurons. Please message me, or however it’s done on this forum.
Hi everyone! Welcome! I’m Xaq, I’m on the organizing committee and I deliver some lectures and tutorials, and I’m helping organize projects. I’ll be seeing you live during various Q&As too. I’m thrilled to see everyone here and ready to learn about the brain!
. Also have some experience studying models of PTSD using deep brain stimulation in rodents. I enjoy nature, biking, and playing music on instruments I’ve neglected to practice since academia consumed my life (piano, guitar, and opera) 
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