Brandon Forys
PHD Student at Motivated Cognition Lab, UBC Department of Psychology
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBrandon Forys is a PhD student in Psychology at UBC who blends cognitive science research with hands-on software development to build tools for real-time animal behavior analysis and brain data processing. With an MA and BA in Psychology, publications in venues like Nature Communications, and presentations at major neuroscience conferences, he pairs rigorous experimental work with practical engineering (Python, R, JavaScript, Django/Flask, Docker). He co-founded UBC's Turing Club to teach AI to novices, helped modernize the backend of Canada’s largest student newspaper, and brings nine years of experience in research, web development, and public speaking. Passionate about AI, HCI, neuroscience, and endocrinology, he favours interdisciplinary solutions that make complex science more reproducible and accessible.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of British ColumbiaAdvanced Placement (AP) Program, Advanced Placement (AP) Program at Tempo SchoolUdemy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
toolbox10
segmentation10
neuroscience9
python8
bids8
neuroimaging8
pose-estimation8
datasets8
cms8
in-progress8
get-started8
brain-imaging7
linguistics7
artificial-intelligence7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bf777/bf777.github.io
Oct 2017 - Nov 2025
Personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 2 months
bf777/MesoNet
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
A python toolbox for locating and exporting brain regions from mouse brain images.
Contributions:3 releases, 244 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 5 months
pythondeeplabcutneuroscienceopencv-pythonsegmentation
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