Ata Karagoz
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAta Karagoz is a computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher with 9 years of experience developing and deploying RL, RNN, and advanced statistical models to probe human decision-making, memory, and spatial navigation. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago after a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, he has accelerated model development and neuroimaging analyses—achieving up to 10x faster model fitting and 40x speedups on HPC pipelines—while publishing first-author papers and securing significant grant funding. His work blends principled cognitive modeling with practical engineering (Python, PyTorch, JAX, MATLAB), translating complex neural and behavioral data into actionable insights about human planning and inference. Notably, he has combined transformer embeddings and brain decoding to study social learning and devised novel behavioral measures to quantify internal planning models, demonstrating a knack for creating new tools and metrics that reveal subtle aspects of cognition.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (13)
psychology9
science9
jspsych9
javascript8
bids1
neuroscience1
pytorch1
computer-vision1
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
dicom1
neuroimaging1
modeling1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cdm-lab/mb-cog-maps-paper
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
atakaragoz/jspsych-contrib
Dec 2023 - Nov 2024
An open repository of jsPsych plugins and extensions, without any official support
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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