Anwar Nunez-elizalde
Senior AI Research Scientist at Taut
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAnwar Nunez-elizalde is a Senior AI Research Scientist based in London with 14 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. He moved from neuroscience-focused postdoctoral research in Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris’ lab at UCL and Jack Gallant’s lab at UC Berkeley into applied AI research, bringing deep domain knowledge of brain data and experimental design to engineering problems. At Taut he applies that background to develop robust AI solutions, combining rigorous research habits with production-minded implementation. Anwar is also an active contributor to neuroimaging open-source tooling, having maintained and improved pycortex compatibility and core visualization code to support diverse Python environments. His blend of academic rigor and practical software maintenance means he’s as comfortable debugging traits.api compatibility across distributions as designing models informed by neural data. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex neuroscience insights into reproducible, deployable machine learning systems.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
python10
neuroimaging10
fmi9
mri9
numpy8
scipy7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gallantlab/pycortex
May 2012 - Mar 2019
Pycortex is a python-based toolkit for surface visualization of fMRI data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anwar's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the compatibility and functionality of the `pycortex` toolkit. They implemented fixes to ensure compatibility across different Python distributions, focusing on the `traits.api` library. Additionally, the user integrated and merged code from different branches to update and maintain the code base. The user's changes touched upon core files related to data visualization and brain data processing.
neuroimagingpythonfmritopological-data-analysissurface
anwarnunez/setup_files
Apr 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 issue in 4 years 6 months
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