Drew Linsley
Chief Executive Officer at Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Linsley is a computational neuroscientist and AI leader who blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive, serving as Assistant Professor (Research) at Brown University while also leading Operant BioPharma as CEO. With 11+ years of experience spanning a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, postdoctoral work in vision science, and roles building deep learning platforms, he studies biological and artificial vision and translates insights into product-focused applications. He has repeatedly bridged lab and industry—founding and steering startups and leading deep learning efforts at BrainScope and Macoto Collective—bringing research-grade methods into real-world neurotech. Based in Providence, Drew combines hands-on modeling expertise with team leadership across research, platform engineering, and commercialization. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves seamlessly between publishing novel science and shipping robust ML systems, often surfacing principled neuroscientific constraints that improve algorithmic vision models.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston CollegeBA, BA at Hamilton College
Github Skills (28)
representations5
neuroscience5
machine-learning4
api4
deep-learning3
python3
computer-vision3
cli-tools3
annotations3
machine-vision3
image-processing2
sgd2
pytorch2
multiclass-classification2
cli2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
drewlinsley/monkey_tracker
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:158 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
drewlinsley/dc_webapp
Nov 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:45 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
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