Hello 👋

https://slides.arokem.org/slides/me.html

I am:

NRDG members

Kelly Chang

Asa Gilmore

McKenzie Hagen

John Kruper

Teresa Gomez

https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu

A little bit of history

  • Grew up in Jerusalem, Israel + Berkeley, CA + Stockholm, Sweden
  • B.Sc. in Biology and Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002)
  • Postbac in computational neuroscience at the Humboldt University, Berlin with Andreas Herz (2002-2003)
  • M.A. in Cognitive Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Merav Ahissar (2005)
  • Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UC Berkeley with Michael Silver (2010)
  • Postdoc at Stanford with Brian Wandell (2011-2015)
  • Senior Data Scientist at the University of Washington eScience Institute (2015-2020)
  • Research faculty in the Psychology Department (2020 - present)

Research

  • Development

Neural correlates of reading ability

Kruper et al. (2021, 2024), Richie-Halford et al. (2021, 2022)

Roy et al. (2023, 2024)

Research

  • Development

Early life brain development

Grotheer et al. 2023

Research

Retinal disease

Mehta et al., 2021

Kruper et al., 2023

Research

  • Machine learning and statistics
  • Open source software and open data

Methods for neuroscience data analysis

https://dipy.org

Richie-Halford et al., 2022

Rokem et al., 2024

Research

  • (NeuroHackademy): a summer institute in neuroimaging and data science

Neurohackademy

Questions?

https://arokem.org

https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu