Brent Foster
Senior Research Scientist at Riverain Technologies
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Foster is a PhD biomedical engineer and senior research scientist with 10 years of experience applying computer vision and AI to medical imaging across academia, startups, and industry. His work ranges from cryo-EM protein modeling at Yale to contributing to FDA-cleared diagnostic platforms in industry, and he played a key role in a startup through acquisition before pausing to focus on family. Brent bridges deep research (novel image-analysis methods for protein conformation and musculoskeletal imaging) with production-focused computer vision engineering, making translational impact in healthcare. Based in Knoxville, he is re-entering the workforce with renewed focus on roles that combine machine learning, clinical utility, and rigorous validation. An underappreciated strength is his ability to move projects from prototype research into regulated, medically compliant products.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Engineering at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (18)
downsampling8
shape-analysis7
vtk6
hierarchical6
outlier-detection5
geodesy5
computer-graphics5
3d-graphics4
visualization4
gaussian-processes4
bayesian4
scientific-visualization4
bayesian-inference4
drift3
data-visualization3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajchaudhari/WRIST-segmentation
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
tagarelab/MultiGPUGridder
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:30 pushes in 1 year
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