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I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at UC San Diego. I finished my Ph.D in Cognitive Science in June 2014.
In my research, I use computational modeling to understand how and why the left and right sides of the brain differ, and how they interact over the corpus callosum. I have used neural network models (rate coded and spiking, feed-forward and recurrent with time delays), cross-species allometric analyses, and now multivariate analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data.
I am a big proponent of open science: using and contributing to publicly available datasets, open source software, and understandable science communication. All of my research code can be found on Github. I blog for a number of websites, develop interactive visualizations of brain data, and have begun to give public talks.