Anup Pillai
Founder And Researcher at NeuroSciTech
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnup Pillai is a founder-researcher who bridges academic neuroscience and commercial deep-tech, bringing 20+ years of hands-on expertise from single-cell electrophysiology to large-scale Neuropixels recording and multiphoton microscopy. Trained as a PhD neuroscientist and seasoned sales engineer, he uniquely combines high-stakes instrument sales and pre/post-sales support with building custom electronics, optics, and high-performance C++/Python data pipelines. He designs and executes end-to-end experiments—stereotaxic surgeries, chronic implants, real-time acquisition, and ML-driven analysis on 10k-core clusters—while ensuring regulatory compliance and publication-ready outputs. As a communicator and educator he has published peer-reviewed work, delivered invited talks on Alzheimer’s modeling, and taught graduate courses that grew enrollment. His business-savvy background enables him to translate complex research needs into commercially viable instruments and workflows that accelerate lab productivity. Based in Ottawa, he thrives at the intersection of discovery and delivery, turning terabytes of neural data and benchside wishlists into measurable scientific impact.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science, Biomedical Instrumentation, First, Master of Applied Science, Biomedical Instrumentation, First at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityData Science Certificate, Data Science, Data Science Certificate, Data Science at Data Sciences Institute, University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Dutch
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Github Skills (7)
intergration8
stochastic7
parallel-processing6
euler6
hpc6
google-cloud-platform6
cpp3
Github contributions (5)
anupgp/stochastic_euler
Apr 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 5 years 5 months
cppeulermethodstochasticintergration
anupgp/image_analysis
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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