Brian Zirkel
Research Assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zirkel is a research-focused psychology and behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern University with nine years of diverse experience supporting clinical research in Boston. Currently a research assistant at the Center for Sleep and Cognition (Beth Israel Deaconess/Harvard Medical School), he runs EEG study sessions, manages multi-participant data pipelines, and leads recruitment and participant communication. Past roles at CARD-BU added IRB experience, poster presentation at ABCT, and a brief stint as research coordinator where he led teams and ensured study execution. He combines hands-on experimental skills with data management and participant-facing responsibilities, and has international study experience from a semester at Trinity College Dublin. Notably, his profile bridges theoretical machine learning/neuroscience interests (per GitHub bio alignment) with pragmatic clinical research skills in sleep and anxiety studies.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad, PSYCHOLOGY, Semester Abroad, PSYCHOLOGY at Trinity College DublinHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jonathan Law High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Psychology and Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology and Neuroscience at Northeastern University
Github Skills (20)
random-walk9
mcmc9
imports8
citations7
vim-plugin7
pulse7
tmux7
python7
julia7
vim6
neuroscience6
neovim5
julialang4
wrapper4
biophysics3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
briandepasquale/factor-based-spiking-nets
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
briandepasquale/full-FORCE-demos
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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