Jason Kai
Postdoctoral Fellow at Child Mind Institute
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Kai is a Postdoctoral Fellow and research-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, reproducible infrastructure for medical imaging and neuroscience research. He has designed Python processing pipelines, Dockerized toolchains, and cloud orchestration that handled imaging data from thousands of participants and supported collaboration across multiple research groups. His background spans hands-on hardware integration, immersive VR demos, and machine learning‑led analysis that resulted in international presentations and peer‑reviewed publications. Jason pairs a PhD in Medical Biophysics with practical IT and DevOps skills, enabling seamless translation of clinical requirements into reliable, portable software. Based in New York, he excels at making complex research workflows auditable and automatable, often improving onboarding and reproducibility in multi‑team environments. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge cutting‑edge imaging science with pragmatic engineering—delivering tools that both accelerate discovery and scale to production research settings.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical & Biomedical Engineering at McMaster UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medical Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medical Biophysics at Western University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
21reputation
6kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (68)
snakemake10
tractography10
python10
bids10
ants10
diffusion-mri10
placement10
merge10
datalad10
extraction10
neuroimaging10
validation9
crypto9
ai9
economics9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kaitj/bidsapp-helper
Jul 2024 - Dec 2025
Small python-helper package to simplify initialization of BIDS app CLIs with common arguments
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
khanlab/subcorticalparc-smk
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
General-purpose Snakemake workflow for subcortical parcellation with functional and structural connectivity
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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