Desiree Lussier-levesque
Founder And Coach at Adaptive Fitness Lab
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDesiree Lussier-levesque is a founder and coach who blends a PhD in Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience with certifications as a personal trainer and yoga instructor, specializing in strength, mobility, and pain management. An Army veteran and former data scientist, she has applied advanced machine learning and neuroimaging expertise—winning awards for autogenerative AI work at Bell and NeuroAI research—to create evidence-based, individualized fitness programs. She coaches seniors in balance and functional strength, teaches low-impact Yoga and Tai Chi, and offers specialized jiu-jitsu and self-defense training for children and women. Her research created scalable neuroimaging tools and functional brain atlases, informing a pragmatic mind-body approach to chronic pain and rehabilitation. Comfortable moving between labs, cloud AI projects, and the gym, she designs interventions that fit real lives and clinical constraints. Clients benefit from a rare combination of rigorous scientific training, hands-on martial arts coaching, and compassionate, veteran leadership.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience / Developmental Psychology (dual specialization), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience / Developmental Psychology (dual specialization) at University of Florida
German, English, French
Github Skills (27)
psychology10
in-progress9
neuroimaging9
coding9
react8
javascript8
data-science8
file-conversion7
extraction7
mri5
pipeline5
segmentation5
txt5
preprocessing5
reduction4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dllussier/academic-kickstart
Dec 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:251 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
dllussier/FSL_timingfile_from_eprime
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Bash script to create custom txt files containing the timing information from eprime.txt output for use with FSL FEAT
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
txt-filestxtfslbashbash-script
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