Brad Caron
Senior Expert Data Scientist I - Medical Imaging
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Caron is a Senior Expert Data Scientist specializing in medical imaging and neuroimaging with nine years of experience translating large-scale MRI, PET/CT, and OCT data into production-ready AI workflows. At Novartis he built and standardized deep learning pipelines and a foundational UNETR++ embedding trained on over 20 TB from 100,000 patients, and also developed containerized tools for automated labeling and segmentation. Previously as a postdoc at UT Austin he analyzed 3,000+ MRI datasets, co-authored a Nature Methods paper, and co-managed the cloud neuroimaging platform brainlife.io to improve data accessibility. He combines rigorous academic training (PhD in Neuroscience) with practical engineering—bringing research-grade models into scalable, reproducible pipelines—and is based in Somerville, MA. An often-overlooked strength is his end-to-end focus, from data ingestion and QC to model deployment, which shortens the path from discovery to impact.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Neuroscience, Neuroscience at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (125)
neuroscience10
documentation10
neuroimaging10
refer9
mri9
user-input9
wma9
distortion9
orientation9
nodes9
diffusion-mri8
chord-diagram8
depth-estimation8
resample8
weighted8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brainlife/app-roi2roitracking
May 2018 - Nov 2020
This app will perform ensemble tracking between 2 or more cortical regions of interest (ROIs) from either a freesurfer parcellation or an atlas parcellation. The app will automatically generate ROI niftis in diffusion space for tracking based on inputted ROI numbers. Inputs include: parcellation (freesurfer; atlas optional), dt6 from dtiinit, and ROI pairings. Outputs include a track.tck for each pairing of ROIs, a classification structure, and a fg_classified structure which can then be fed into other apps on the website (example: Clean WMC Output).
Contributions:1 PR, 104 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
classifiedoutputsensembleexample-websitetck
brainlife/app-roiGenerator
May 2018 - Nov 2023
Generate a parcellation volume (and roi nifti files split into each label) for specific ROIs, or every ROI, for a parcellation from freesurfer output and/or input parcellation volume. This App can also inflate input parcellation volume toward non-white matter voxels.
Contributions:1 PR, 324 pushes, 48 branches in 5 years 6 months
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