Aki Nikolaidis
Co-founder, Chief Science Officer at Child Mind Institute
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAki Nikolaidis is a scientist-founder and Chief Science Officer with 11+ years translating neuroscience and machine learning into scalable products for VR, mobile, and behavioral health. As co-founder of Visionary Training Resources and a research scientist at the Child Mind Institute, Aki combines hands-on product management, grant leadership, and patented invention—most notably a US patent for a VR pilot-training platform—to move research into real-world impact. Their work spans corticostriatal circuits, brain development, and open science practices, and earned an NIH Director’s Award for leading influential COVID-19 mental health studies. Comfortable bridging academic rigor and entrepreneurial urgency, Aki often ships tools that embed complex ML and experimental design into usable experiences for clinicians and learners.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Neuroscience, Ph.D Neuroscience at University of Illinois SystemWheeling High SchoolB.A Psychology, B.A Psychology at Yale UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSt. George Greek School, (High
Chinese, Spanish, Greek
Github Skills (33)
bootstrapping10
decoding9
fuzzy-logic9
nipype8
jupyter-book8
nilearn8
brain-imaging7
networkx7
neuroimaging7
pipeline7
python7
optimization6
anaconda6
ide6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AkiNikolaidis/PyBASC
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
Bootstrapped Analysis of Stable Clusters- A semi-automated fMRI individual and group level functional parcellation technique
Contributions:1 release, 199 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 3 months
individualbootstrappingclusterssemifmri
AkiNikolaidis/AkiNikolaidis.github.io
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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