About Me
I believe learning and memory are critical for intelligence and consciousness. Since I first departed for university, this core philosophy has motivated me to dive into neuroscience and, especially, the hippocampus which is a key brain structure in learning and memory. My graduate work versed me in many technical problems around studying the hippocampus in humans, especially with neuroimaging. Now, with the advent of deep learning, I have developed methods for handling hippocampal imaging all the way from 3D MRI to the miscroscopic or histological level. Along the way, the utility of deep learning has been instrumental, but the theory itself also intrigues me as I now examine links between hippocampal and AI learning.
Methods
- Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI), 3T, 7T, 9.4T ex-vivo, structural and quantitative mapping, diffusion weighted imaging, resting state functional MRI (fMRI), connectivity, gradients, dynamic connectivity
- Artificial intelligence, neural networks, self-supervised learning, truly serial processing, Transformers, memory-augmented neural networks
- Software development, Brain Imaging Data Standards (BIDS), BIDS-Apps, opensource, data sharing, reproducibility, pipelining, data science
- Histology, image processing, 3D reconstruction, artifact correction, multimodal imaging
- Medical image processing, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, coordinate transforms, conformal mapping, morphometry, image segmentation
- Cognitive psychology, behavioural testing, episodic memory, spatial navigation, pattern separation, cued recall, autobiographical memory, representational similarity
- Evolutionary psychology, cross-species analysis, ontogeny and phylogeny, rodent marmoset and macaque brain imaging
- Reading. Something we never do enough of, especially across different disciplines. Exploring, experimenting, iterating, and discussing, even when it doesn't lead to publications
Education
- PostDoc at McGill University, Montreal working with Dr. Alan Evans and Dr. Boris Bernhardt.
- PhD in Neuroscience, Western University, London working with Dr. Ali Khan and Dr. Stefan Kohler.
- MSc in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology, Western University, London.
- BSc in Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa.