Benjamin Singer
Director Of Scientific Computing, PNI at Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Singer is a director-level computational neuroscientist and software engineer with 13+ years building and scaling scientific computing at Princeton Neuroscience Institute, where he oversaw the evolution from tiny SGI systems to a dedicated 50+ rack, 5000+ core facility while also writing production C++ and MATLAB code for fMRI alignment and ML-based time-series toolboxes. He blends hands-on systems design, parallel programming (MPI/OpenMP), and grant-backed infrastructure strategy with deep domain expertise in cognitive and mathematical behavioral sciences (PhD, UC Irvine). Comfortable in academia and industry, he also ships mobile and VR apps as an independent developer and has a long history of instrument and signal-processing software for vision and neuroscience labs. Known for turning research algorithms into scalable, usable tools, he frequently bridges collaborations across university HPC centers, NIH/UK groups, and industry partners.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology and Computer Science at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at University of California, Irvine
English, French, Hebrew
Github Skills (39)
neuroscience10
cognitive-science10
modeling10
connectivity9
python9
crowd9
correlation9
neuroimaging8
imaging8
linguistics8
toolbox7
brain-imaging7
machine-learning7
experiment6
science6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PrincetonUniversity/neuron-graph
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:11 reviews, 51 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 5 months
aligners/funcnorm
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
connectivitysubjectanatomycorrelationstoolbox
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