Jonathan Nicholas
Postdoctoral Research Scientist at New York University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Nicholas is a cognitive neuroscience researcher and PhD candidate at Columbia University with 13 years of research and teaching experience bridging computational methods and human memory. He has applied quantitative techniques—from PCA and Bayesian models to neural networks—across labs at Stanford, Brown, and Columbia, and contributed educational material such as a Neuro-Cloud textbook chapter. Based in New York, he blends hands-on coding and experiment design with course development and mentoring, having taught computational cognitive science and designed MATLAB assignments. Less obvious: his background spans eclectic roles from radio programming to herpetology instruction, reflecting a knack for tailoring complex content to diverse audiences.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience at Columbia UniversityNeuroscience and Philosophy, Neuroscience and Philosophy at King's College London
Github Skills (93)
nosql9
source-port9
database9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
topic-modeling8
word2vec8
fasttext8
lda8
mbf8
git8
sdl7
corpus7
glove7
python7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
expfactory/expfactory-games
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 69 pushes, 17 comments in 8 months
jonathanicholas/dtm-fmri
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
braintime-varyingtopic-modelinglatentmodeling
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