Adam Thomas
Acting Chief Information Officer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Thomas is an interdisciplinary technology and science leader who currently serves as Acting Chief Information Officer at NIMH, blending 11+ years of experience in data science, research IT, and team building. Trained as a computer scientist (BSc) and neuroscientist (PhD, Oxford), he has led large-scale MRI studies on exercise-driven brain plasticity while architecting open, standards-based data infrastructures and growing a Data Science & Sharing team from one to seven staff. He combines hands-on systems work (Linux, Postgres, web stacks) with strategic program development—having scaled a team budget fourfold and co-led searches for machine learning leadership. A prolific collaborator and author of dozens of peer-reviewed papers, he also designs courses, gives invited talks internationally, and advocates for democratizing science through open systems. Notably, he bridges operational IT and cutting-edge analytics, moving tools from code and servers into reproducible research pipelines that accelerate discovery. Based in Washington, DC, he seeks opportunities that expand equitable access to scientific data and computational methods.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience at University of OxfordBachelor's degree, Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology at University of Nebraska-LincolnMaster of Science (MS), Neuroscience, Master of Science (MS), Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh
English, German
Github Skills (93)
bids10
data-validation10
imaging10
neuroimaging10
mri9
genomics9
data-structure9
stable8
quality-assurance8
data-wrangling7
datasets7
matlab7
brain-imaging7
posters7
python7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chen5027/2015-01-08-NIH
Jan 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years 6 months
nih-fmrif/dataSci_job_ad
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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