Ben Pedigo
Scientist at Center for Sensorimotor Engineering
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBen Pedigo is a scientist and computational neuroengineer with eight years of experience applying statistical and software tools to nanoscale connectomes. Trained as a Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering PhD and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, he developed graph embedding tools (including an ASEEmbedder) as a core contributor to graspologic, now co-developed with Microsoft Research. Currently at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, he combines hands-on coding with collaborative neuroscience research—recently analyzing the first Drosophila larva nanoscale connectome. Ben’s work sits at the intersection of open-source software and reproducible neuroscience, making advanced network analyses more accessible to researchers.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Bioengineering - Applied Math Minor, Junior, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioengineering - Applied Math Minor, Junior at University of WashingtonJohns Hopkins University
English
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Github Skills (14)
scikit10
graph10
statistics10
graph-algorithms10
machine-learning10
python10
data-science10
graphing10
statistic10
scikit-learn10
isomorphism6
networkx6
subgraph6
numpy6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
graspologic-org/graspologic
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Python package for graph statistics
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:4 releases, 677 reviews, 305 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben implemented an Adjacency Spectral Embedding (ASE) class and made minor fixes, updating documentation, and reflecting new naming conventions within the `graspologic-org/graspologic` repository. The primary focus was on graph statistics, particularly related to graph embedding, with the creation of an `ASEEmbedder` class and related methods, which demonstrates work in dimensionality reduction for graphs. The user further incorporated new functionality related to testing and comparisons using k-means.
graphpythonstatisticsdata-sciencenetworks
bdpedigo/skedits
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Messing around with the CAVEclient for accessing connectome data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 236 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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