Ian Ballard
Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Ballard is an assistant professor and cognitive neuroscience researcher with 11 years of experience bridging theoretical and empirical approaches to brain function. Trained at Duke (Theoretical Neuroscience, 3.93 GPA) and Stanford (PhD), he develops and applies computational models, reinforcement learning frameworks, and rigorous statistical methods to fMRI and behavioral data. His work blends strong programming skills in Python and Matlab with advanced modeling and experimental design, honed during a Berkeley postdoc and ongoing faculty role at UC Riverside. He is equally fluent in writing and pedagogy, translating complex quantitative methods into accessible neuroscience insights. Notably, his background in individualized theoretical neuroscience gives him a rare ability to connect abstract models to real-world neural measurements.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Individualized Curriculum: Theoretical Neuroscience, 3.93 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Individualized Curriculum: Theoretical Neuroscience, 3.93 GPA at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience at Stanford University
French
Github Skills (26)
linguistics9
experiment8
psychology8
experimental-design8
electrophysiology7
neuroscience7
sbml7
science7
psychopy6
brain-computer-interface6
cognitive-science6
python6
philosophy5
dtw5
connectivity5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iancballard/RL-Tutorials
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
iancballard/fd_fmri
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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