Corban Swain
Postdoctoral Researcher at Corban Swain Photography
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorban Swain is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT’s McGovern Institute who combines deep expertise in microscopy, expansion imaging, and computational multi-dimensional biological image analysis with strong engineering foundations in MATLAB and Python. He completed a PhD in 2024 in Ed Boyden’s lab focused on live imaging and expansion microscopy for neuroscience, and brings nine years of hands-on experience across microscopy system design, nanoparticle synthesis, and quantitative analysis. A former graduate instructor and tutor, he values collaborative mentorship and has taught Git, computational biology, and lab fundamentals, helping peers translate complex methods into reproducible workflows. Outside the lab he founded a photography business, applying an artistic eye to scientific imaging and emphasizing the emotional as well as technical fidelity of visual data.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (BS), Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (BS) at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (40)
deconvolution10
extraction10
sliding10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
spike10
matplotlib9
toolbox9
movie9
biomechanics9
imaging9
python9
machine-learning9
robust9
microscopy9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CorbanSwain/Python-Utils
Feb 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
CorbanSwain/www
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
My personal website (built on Lanyon <- Jekyll).
Contributions:20 PRs, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
sidebar-themesidebarjekylljekyll-themesliding
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