Director of Innovative Technologies

Director of the MATTER Lab

Mind-Assisting Technologies for Therapy, Education, and Research

Senior Research Scientist and Healey Scholar

Child Mind Institute (Manhattan, NY)

• Building open-source software infrastructure, informatics, and interfaces for language and mental health assisting platforms
• Created the end-to-end encrypted MindLogger platform (mindlogger.org) for building data collection, assessment, and intervention mobile/web apps.
• Built hundreds of mental health and other assessments in MindLogger
• Designed protocols to collect speech and actigraphy data from thousands of participants as part of the Health Brain Network study
• Prototyped journaling and augmented reality apps now in app stores
• Patented wearable devices for gesture recognition and respirometry

Principal Scientist of Systems Biology

Director of Neuroimaging

Sage Bionetworks (Seattle, WA)

• Mobile health research app development with Apple (HealthKit)
• mPower app, used in the world's largest Parkinson study
• Feature extraction from mobile phone sensor data
• Open science crowdsourced data analysis contests

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

• Research on imaging biomarkers of depression and PTSD
• Co-taught brain imaging courses

Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology

Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology

Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Columbia University (Manhattan, NY)

• Research on brain image processing, registration, and labeling
• Open-source brain morphometry software (mindboggle.info)

Information Synthesis Theorist and Program Analyst

Parsons Institute for Information Mapping

The New School (Manhattan, NY)

• Complex data visualization and information visualization
• Construction of visualization ontologies

Research Scientist

Department of Psychiatry

Columbia University (Manhattan, NY)

• Detection of biomarkers of disease in brain MRI data

Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Manhattan, NY)

Functional MRI Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Functional MRI Research Center, Columbia University

Ph.D. in Neuroscience, May, 2004

Thesis: Automated brain labeling with Mindboggle

• Invented open-source Mindboggle software to automate anatomical labeling of human brain MRI data
• Simple mindreading based on task-evoked fMRI activity

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

Computation and Neural Systems Program

• Brain tissue optics research: 2-photon microscopy and light-based uncaging of molecules
• Biophysical computer modeling of light propagation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Spatial Imaging Group, MIT Media Laboratory

M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences, September 1996

Thesis: Dispersion Compensation for Reflection Holography

• Dispersion correction for holographic view stations: World's deepest dispersion-controlled viewing stations
• World's thinnest edge-lit holograms
• Computer animation for an electronic-holography display
• Later published a general raytracing equation for holograms

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

B.S. in Biopsychology, Perception and Cognition Studies, May 1993

• Research assistant in the Kellogg Eye Institute
• Independent computer-generated holography research

Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese studies

International Division (Kokusaibu)

• Autostereoscopic holography research (Tama Art College)

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

Resident Honors Program scholar

• Research assistant in Hedco Neurosciences
• Independent display holography projects