Caleb Sponheim
Senior Experience Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCaleb Sponheim is a Senior Experience Specialist and researcher with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging AI, UX, and computational neuroscience. Based at Nielsen Norman Group, he designs and teaches best-selling AI-focused UX courses and serves as an in-house subject matter expert, having trained hundreds of practitioners and mentored junior staff. His PhD work at the University of Chicago combined engineering rigor with human-centered research—securing a $300k+ DoD fellowship and contributing to a human brain-machine interface through analysis of 6,000+ datasets. Caleb blends hands-on technical skill (from MRI and implant data analysis to prototyping mobile UX) with clear instructional impact, and he routinely translates complex neurotechnical findings into practical design and product recommendations. He’s as comfortable presenting research to clients and policy-minded sponsors as he is building reproducible analysis pipelines, bringing a rare mix of lab-scale neuroscience credibility to applied AI and UX practice.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology Concentration in Neuroscience, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology Concentration in Neuroscience at Grinnell CollegeHigh School International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, High School International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Southwest High School, Minneapolis, MNElementary None, Elementary None at Lake Country Montessori SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Neuroscience at University of Chicago
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
calebsponheim/intermittent_control_project
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:367 pushes in 1 year 7 months
airsickegret/math_methods_2_final_project
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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