Ian Zane
Graduate Teaching Assistant
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Zane is a Cognitive Science PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at UC San Diego with nine years of experience bridging hands-on animal work and data-driven neuroscience. He investigates how local neural rhythms in hippocampal circuits shape social behavior and decision-making across rodents and primates, currently probing rat social responses to novel stimuli and CA1 interneuron firing during context-dependent odor tasks. Skilled in experiment design, surgeries, drive assembly, and data analysis, he also teaches introductory data science and Python courses, translating complex methods for learners. Based in San Diego, Ian brings a rare combination of veterinary animal handling experience and computational neuroscience training, making him adept at studies that require both precise behavioral assays and rigorous neural signal analysis.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (17)
sketch8
vanilla-javascript6
react5
javascript5
material-ui4
datatable2
typescript2
tensorflowjs2
jupyter2
notebook2
nodejs2
datagrid2
plotly2
debugging1
visualization1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cogtoolslab/semantic_parts_v2
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 25 days
yiy142/helloworldWC
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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