Franco Pestilli
Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFranco Pestilli is a professor and neuroinformatics leader with 18 years of experience building large-scale cloud platforms for neuroscience, most notably as the scientific director and architect of brainlife.io, which enables advanced data management, analysis, and visualization for biomedical research. His career spans top research institutions including Stanford, Columbia, NYU, and RIKEN, where he combined psychological and brain science research with teaching and public speaking. Franco brings hands-on software development (Python, MATLAB), Unix/Linux systems administration, and statistical expertise to bridge computational engineering and experimental neuroscience. Multilingual in English, Italian, and Spanish, he has a track record of translating complex scientific needs into practical, user-focused platforms and training materials. Less obvious: his background includes IT consulting in Italy and sustained academic leadership that has consistently pushed reproducible, cloud-native workflows into everyday neuroscience practice.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at New York UniversityPostdoc, Postdoc at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Sapienza Università di Romapostdoc, postdoc at Stanford University
Italian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (133)
interoperability10
python10
m-files10
multidimensional-arrays10
weighted10
bids10
specification10
brain-imaging10
statistics10
matlab10
nifti10
diffusion-mri10
mex10
mri10
preprocessing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brain-life/encode
Jul 2015 - Mar 2021
Method for encoding brain connectomes in multidimensional arrays (tensors).
Contributions:6 releases, 131 commits, 71 PRs in 5 years 8 months
multidimensional-arraysbrainbrain-connectomesencoding-connectomesmatlab
francopestilli/pestilli-teaching-2017
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 months
student-projectspython
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