Talmo Pereira
Assistant Professor at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTalmo Pereira is an Assistant Professor and computational neuroscientist with 13 years of experience bridging deep learning and biology. After a PhD in Neuroscience from Princeton, he led Talmo's Lab as a Salk Fellow and Principal Investigator, developing neural and behavioral models that span animals, plants, and engineered systems. He has industry experience from Google AI working on action-recognition models and a strong track record in building image- and video-processing pipelines for connectomics and ethology dating back to MIT and Caltech. Based in San Diego, he runs a lab that applies modern deep learning to fundamental questions in brain function and behavior while translating methods across domains. Talmo combines rigorous experimental neuroscience with hands-on ML engineering, often crafting bespoke computational tools rather than relying solely on off-the-shelf solutions. His work reflects an unusual breadth: from molecular and imaging studies to large-scale behavioral modeling.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience at Princeton University
English, portuguese (brazilian), Spanish
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Github Skills (86)
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pose10
deep-learning10
udp10
hourglass10
pose-estimation10
motion-tracking9
python9
backend9
pytorch9
cpm9
conda9
openmmlab8
behavior8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
talmolab/lab-website
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
conda-forge/sleap-io-feedstock
Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
A conda-smithy repository for sleap-io.
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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