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.
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.
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.
Vadim Melnik
Software Engineer & Consultant
External consultant working on ReproStim, ReproMon, con/noisseur, events collection/timing projects and cosmic harmony.
Cody Baker
Research Software Engineer
Data connoisseur responsible for creating many software packages through the NWB and DANDI ecosystem (NeuroConv, NWB Inspector, NWB GUIDE). Experienced in uploading several hundred terabytes of neurophysiology datasets to NIH archives. Currently working on DANDI infrastructure.
John Lee
Research Software Engineer
John brings together research imaging, open-source infrastructure, and an industry engineering perspective. His work spans NIH neuroimaging data sharing, AFNI testing infrastructure, consulting and independent software work, and reproducible biomedical image transformation. At CON, he works on building and applying the center's tools for reproducibility and provenance tracking to healthcare image data, with an interest in auditable autonomous systems for scientific research and clinical translation.
Collaborators
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.
Leads Psychoinformatics
Jean-Baptiste Poline
McGill University, Canada
The root cause of all kinds of Open and Standard things in neuroimaging.
Leads ORIGAMI Lab
Russell A. Poldrack
Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
PI of OpenNeuro and, before it, of OpenfMRI, and, with Chris Gorgolewski, the creator of BIDS, which grew out of the OpenfMRI layout. The collaboration began with decoding mental states across individuals and continued with making OpenfMRI datasets available through DataLad.
Satrajit Ghosh
MIT, Harvard Medical School
An old-time partner in our "scientific plumbing" business and a lead of DANDI, NiPype and other projects.
Leads SenseIn
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.
Oliver Rübel
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ben Dichter
Founder of CatalystNeuro; long-standing contributor to DANDI and NWB.
Leads CatalystNeuro
Ryan Ly
Senior Research Software Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chris Markiewicz
Stanford University, Poldrack Lab
BIDS Guru and Jedi Master of all the *Preps. Software developer at Stanford's Poldrack Lab and research affiliate of the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Core developer of fMRIPrep and other NiPreps, long-standing BIDS maintainer, and one of the pillars of the neuroimaging Python ecosystem (NiBabel, Nipype, FitLins).
Jacob Nesbitt
Senior R&D Engineer, Kitware
Develops the DANDI archive's web application and API, dandi-archive, at Kitware -- over 1,400 commits since 2020.
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.
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.
Roni Choudhury
Technical Leader, Kitware
Develops the DANDI archive's web application and API, dandi-archive, at Kitware -- some 600 commits since 2021.
Seyed (Yahya) Shirazi
Assistant Project Scientist, SCCN, UC San Diego
Assistant Project Scientist at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, UC San Diego. A BIDS maintainer and HED contributor, a lead of BEP044 (Stimuli) and BEP042 (EMG), and the lead of the Annotation Garden Initiative.
Dora Hermes
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Her Multimodal Neuroimaging Lab at Mayo Clinic studies the human brain with intracranial EEG and fMRI. A member of the BIDS Steering Group and a lead of BEP044 (Stimuli).
Affiliated Faculty
James V. Haxby
Professor
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.
Leads Haxby Lab
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.
Leads Context Lab
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.
Leads vandermeerlab
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.
Leads COSAN Lab
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.
Leads CANlab
Collaborating labs & groups
Partners
Collaborating projects
Projects for which we provide our "services" and have established push/pull relationship with.
DICOM
Fail2Ban
Neurodocker
Nibotmi
NIDM
ORINOCO
patsy
PyNIDM
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Andy Connolly
Worked across the Center's imaging stack rather than any one corner of it: PyMVPA early on, then the scanner-side work -- ReproStim, where most of his commits are, and the DBIC Handbook.
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
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.
Emeritus Collaborators
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.
Mike Grauer
Technical Leader, Kitware
Started dandi-archive, the web application and API of the DANDI archive, at Kitware in 2019, and worked on it through 2020.
Benjamin Poldrack
INM-7, Research Centre Julich, Germany
Worked on the DataLad project and the magician behind OHBM 2020 Booth Design.
Soichi Hayashi
Indiana University, Bloomington
A former lead software engineer of brainlife.io. He helped us save both COVID-times virtual OHBMs. A hacker 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.
https://ror.org/04tfhh831