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.
8 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 (51)
toolbox10
pose10
datasets9
pose-estimation9
mouse9
bids9
react8
deep-learning8
neuroscience8
neuroimaging8
linguistics8
get-started7
experimental-design7
pytorch7
spotify7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
turing-club/electron-spotify
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
A Spotify client integrating AI for the Turing Club's summer project!
Contributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
turingspotifysummer-projectsummerspotify-client
bf777/bf777.github.io
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
Personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 132 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 5 months
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