Dylan Festa
Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolDylan Festa is a computational neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience studying neural coding and brain computation across leading European and US institutes. Trained with a PhD from Cambridge and a physics background from Università di Pisa (110/110 cum laude), he blends rigorous theoretical modeling with hands-on experimental collaboration to probe visual system representations. His postdoc roles at TUM and the Max Planck Institute build on earlier work at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he focused on neural coding in visual areas. Based in Frankfurt, he brings deep interdisciplinary fluency—spanning computational theory, data analysis, and neurophysiology—and a track record of moving ideas from theory to reproducible research. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex mathematical models into testable experiments and open, shareable code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience at University of CambridgeBachelor and Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor and Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, German, Latin
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Github Skills (34)
julia10
programming-language9
machine-learning9
hpc9
statistics9
science9
julialang8
numerical8
data-science7
bayesian-statistics7
hdf7
probabilistic-models7
kernel6
bayesian-inference6
probabilistic-graphical-models6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dylanfesta/SpikeTrainUtilities.jl
May 2023 - Jun 2026
Used to analyze spike trains (mostly generated by simulations of spiking RNNs)
Contributions:4 PRs, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
dylanfesta/SmoothedSpectralAbscissa.jl
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Compuation of the Smoothed Spectral Abscissa (SSA) and its gradient
Contributions:2 PRs, 78 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
gradientspectralssa
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