Adam Kimbler is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Irvine with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and nine years of experience applying advanced deep learning and statistical methods to large-scale neuroimaging data. He designs scalable data ingest architectures (including an 800 GB ADNI pipeline), automates processing for translational Alzheimer's research across human and mouse datasets, and manages a team responsible for QA of complex datasets. Adam pairs hands-on engineering—contributions to the PsychoPy open-source project and automation tools like Nipype—with rigorous publication-driven science, reducing manual processing hours by 85% on an NIH-funded study. Based in Los Angeles, he also bridges academia and industry through data-annotation work building prompt-engineered coding assistants and by training the next generation of neuroscience researchers.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience at Florida International University
Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY at Eastern Kentucky University
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the PsychoPy project by fixing a Windows-specific bug in the coder view and adding docstrings to class methods in the Builder view. They also merged in updates and refactored the project by correcting indirect imports and updating import statements. The user's work touched on multiple aspects of the application, including the builder and movie components, with changes to several files across the project's structure.
Contributions:3 releases, 285 commits, 60 PRs in 7 months
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