Bradley Voytek
Data Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBradley Voytek is a cognitive neuroscientist and data science leader who serves as Department Chair and Professor at UC San Diego, combining academic leadership with hands-on computational research. With a PhD from UC Berkeley and an atypical early-career stint as Uber’s first data scientist, he melds large-scale data science and machine learning to study brain communication across development, aging, and disease. A founding faculty member of UCSD’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Undergraduate Data Science program, he bridges interdisciplinary training, research, and public outreach. An Alfred P. Sloan Neuroscience Research Fellow and Kavli Fellow, Voytek publishes broadly and translates science for general audiences — including a popular book, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? — and frequent media appearances. He advises institutions from the National Academy of Sciences to startups and cultural organizations, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor, industry experience, and public engagement. Based in California, he maintains an active lab and public profile that emphasize reproducible, scalable neuroscience informed by real-world data problems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
python10
spectra10
electrophysiology10
periodic10
digital-signal-processing10
neuroscience10
data-science9
journal9
computational-neuroscience9
open-science9
notebook9
machine-learning9
time-series9
open-data9
open-access9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voytekresearch/spr
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
voytekresearch/Public
Apr 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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