Centroids
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Founding Director
Research Professor of Psychological and Brain
Sciences and
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth,
official Debian Developer,
contributor to many open source projects
-- Yaroslav (AKA Yarik) is a lead of
DANDI,
DataLad,
PyMVPA,
NeuroDebian,
and other
projects. He is also currently
serving on BIDS standard Steering and NWB standard technical
advisory committees, and engaged in various other
initiatives, projects, and efforts.
James V. Haxby
Co-Director
Dr. Haxby for many years directed
the Dartmouth Brain
Imaging Center (DBIC) and the
Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) and cradled many of the CON
projects. Dr.Haxby has
an outstanding history of developing and disseminating in
the open novel research methodologies, as well as
influential datasets.
John Wodder
Software Developer
Works on the DANDI client and related
projects. Jack of all trades and skilled in Python, Rust,
DevOps, testing, packaging, & type-hinting
and in continuous integration. Likes abstract mathematics,
*nix-based operating systems, and large properly-formatted data
files.
Isaac To
Software Developer
Loves Python and open-source software. Works on DataLad-Registry and various metadata-related DANDI things.
Currently resides in sunny Southern California with his wife and son.
Austin Macdonald
Software Engineer
Austin Macdonald (asmacdo) is obstinately passionate about open source values and
is dedicated to developing open science tools as inclusively and
transparently as possible. He currently lives in Raleigh with his giant,
spastic, and clumsy dog Chonks.
Vadim Melnik
Software Engineer & Consultant
External consultant working on ReproStim, ReproMon, con/noisseur, events collection/timing
projects and cosmic harmony.
Collaborators
Adina Wagner
INM-7, Research Centre Julich, Germany
Ph.D. student in Michael Hanke's
Psychoinformatics Lab and the lead of the amazing DataLad Handbook.
Looks like a Clinical Psychologist on
paper, but strives for an open-science conducting, open-software developing
secret identity thanks to inspirational influences from Michael, Yarik,
Benjamin, and many more.
project.
Jean-Baptiste Poline
McGill University, Canada
The root cause of all kinds of Open and Standard things in neuroimaging.
Joey Hess
Independent Guru
Joey's own introduction "I'm Joey Hess and I write
programs"
conceals his paramount role in establishing the core of the
Debian distribution
(debhelper,
debian-installer,
debconf,
pristine-tar,
etc.) and his work on variety of other
software projects, such
as git-annex
which we rely upon in
the DataLad project.
Franco Pestilli
University of Texas, Austin
Department of Psychology
Franco is the director and founder of the partner project and cloud computing platform
brainlife.io.
Michael Hanke
INM-7, Research Centre Julich, Germany
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Formerly a visiting post-doctoral researcher in Dr.Haxby's
lab, now a J.-Prof., one of the first Psychoinformaticians,
official Debian developer, member of INCF neuroimaging task
force -- he is an old-time collaborator and a lead of
PyMVPA,
NeuroDebian,
DataLad, and other projects.
Satrajit Ghosh
MIT, Harvard Medical School
Affiliated Faculty
Jeremy Rothman Manning
Associate Professor
Jeremy is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain
Sciences at Dartmouth and directs the Contextual Dynamics
Lab. He enjoys thinking about brains, non-brain brain-related
things (e.g. zombies), computers, annoying-to-solve puzzles,
and cats.
Luke Chang
Associate Professor
Luke is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain
Sciences at Dartmouth and directs the Computational Social and Affective
Neuroscience Lab. His lab develops tools to study the computational processes
underlying emotions and social interactions and their neurobiological substrates.
Matthijs (Matt) van der Meer
Associate Professor
Matt is an Associate Professor of Psychological and
Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. His lab studies how
ensembles of neurons across multiple brain areas
organize experience in the service of adaptive behavior.
Tor D. Wager
Professor
Dr. Wager and his lab have a dedication toward developing
analysis methods for functional neuroimaging and sharing ideas,
tools, and scientific data with the scientific community and
public. At the moment Tor is also
leading Dartmouth
Brain Imaging Center (DBIC) where CON pilots various
deployments and automations to improve efficiency and
reproducibility in the neuroimaging, and
the Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience.
Emeritus
Jason Gors
Lost in California
Pythonista and heavy user of open-source offerings. Works on
the DataLad project.
Gergana Alteva
Barnard College, Columbia University
A CS undergraduate from Columbia, worked on the DataLad project as a developer intern at
Dartmouth in the summer of 2016. "This internship not only made me a
contributor to a cool open source project, but through it I gained valuable
experience in software development teamwork and tools (Git/GitHub, Travis,
etc) which later made academic presentation of the same materials actually
make sense and gave me a leg up in my courses. It was an incredible
opportunity to work with and learn from such accomplished developers."
Oliver Contier
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Masters student in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience at the
University of Magdeburg. Oliver started his enthusiasm for
open science as an intern at Dartmouth College where he
enjoyed a summer full of fMRI data analysis. His current goal
is to provide his University with a fully reproducible Masters
thesis. Naturally, the perfect way to do it is by using - and
contributing to - open software frameworks.
Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello
UC Berkeley, CA
Formerly a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth, holds a M.Sc. in
Cognitive Science from the University of Trento, Italy and a degree in
Mathematics from the University of Torino, Italy. Co-developer of the
DueCredit project.
Samuel Nastase
Princeton, NJ
Formerly a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth. Avid PyMVPA
user and NeuroDebian exhibitor at recent SfN and OHBM conferences.
Nikolaas N. Oosterhof
Hiding somewhere in Netherlands
Ph.D. in Psychology, master's degrees in Computer
Science, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Science, Technology
and Society.
Developer of
PyMVPA,
promoter of
NeuroDebian, and
contributor to other projects.
Matthew Brett
University of
Birmingham, UK
Neurologist, neuroimaging methods guru, early proponent of
reproducible practice and in-depth understanding of the used
analysis methodologies, lead of
Neuroimaging in Python
community and some of its popular software
(NiPy and
NiBabel) projects
and infrastructural solutions, such
as Nibotmi which we are
contributing to.
Kyle Meyer
Programmer
Worked on the
ReproMan and
DataLad projects.
Kyle was our guide through the Git intricacies and best
practices, and the magit guru. See
e.g. his
presentation "A Tour of Magit" at
the Distribits 2024 event.
Chris Cheng
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth undergrad with a passion for learning more about neuroimaging,
open science, and reproducible neuroscience. One of NiBabel's active contributors.
Editor of select ReproNim training materials. Worked to model relationship
between fMRI QA metrics and human scan data under Yarik's wise
mentorship.
- Cheng CP and Halchenko YO. A new virtue of phantom MRI data: explaining variance in human participant data. F1000Research 2020, 9:1131 DOI:10.12688/f1000research.24544.1
Soichi Hayashi
Indiana University, Bloomington
A software engineer at brainlife.io. A husband and a father of 2 who likes
coding, cooking, bicycling, hiking, gardening, and just about anything else.
Vanessa Sochat
Stanford University Research Computing Center, Stanford CA
Research Software Engineer in the Stanford Research Computing Center. Likes programming,
containers, avocados, and open-source development. Developer of Singularity Hub and other
related tools for Singularity containers.
See a list of work or recent
ideas on her personal site.
Benjamin Poldrack
INM-7, Research Centre Julich, Germany
Worked on the DataLad project and the
magician behind OHBM 2020 Booth Design.
Horea-Ioan Ioanas
Research Scientist
Worked on DANDI and related projects.
Skilled in Python, Gentoo Linux, magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscience, and psychopharmacology.
- Ioanas H-I, Macdonald A and Halchenko YO (2024) Neuroimaging article reexecution and reproduction assessment system. Front. Neuroinform. 18:1376022. DOI:10.3389/fninf.2024.1376022