Francisco Pereira
Director Of The Machine Learning Core at Center for Responsible AI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolFrancisco Pereira is a machine learning researcher and leader with 11 years of experience applying AI to scientific discovery in psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. As Director of the Machine Learning Core at NIMH he built and scaled an embedded ML team that now serves 40+ investigators across NIMH and NIDA, translating methodological advances into practical support and new analysis tools. Trained at Carnegie Mellon with interdisciplinary roots in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, he blends deep research expertise with hands-on engineering and program leadership from roles at Siemens and Princeton. He has a track record of securing and executing large, multi-institutional projects (including an IARPA program) and turning neuroimaging and connectivity data into interpretable diagnostic models and patents. Known for embedding ML within scientific workflows, he focuses on augmenting human decision-making rather than replacing it. Based in Washington, DC, he combines academic rigor with operational experience building cores that accelerate research impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Complex Systems Summer School, Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe InstitutePh.D. Computer Science and Neural Basis of Cognition, Ph.D. Computer Science and Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (16)
feature-extraction6
extraction5
audio5
python4
machine-learning3
mri3
docker-compose2
neuroimaging2
pipeline2
dockerfile2
uwsgi2
django2
bids2
nginx1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nih-fmrif/ml
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
tsuipen/cmn-website
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
MLC fork of the CMN web site
Contributions:2 pushes in 22 days
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