Jasper Van Den Bosch
Research Fellow at University of Leeds
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJasper Van Den Bosch is a cognitive neuroscientist and software-minded research fellow with 14 years’ experience at the intersection of human behaviour, brain science, and applied AI. He co-founded Meadows to commercialize online behaviour research and builds web, mobile and desktop tools that turn data into practical decision aids—NemaDecide, used globally by farmers, is one notable example. His academic path spans Maastricht, Rome, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Cambridge and Washington, and his work has attracted funding such as from the Bezos Family Foundation. Jasper also contributes to open-source neuroimaging tooling (notably improving test coverage and robustness for nibabel’s parrec2nii utility), reflecting a rare blend of rigorous experimental science and production-grade software engineering. Always curious about perception, he focuses on how the brain decides what we see while shipping real-world products that scale those insights.
14 years of coding experience
MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht UniversityGymnasium, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Dutch, English, Latin, Gymnasium, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Dutch, English, Latin at Onze Lieve Vrouwelyceum Breda
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
testing10
python10
mocking10
neuroimaging9
nifti8
data-format7
data-formats7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nipy/nibabel
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Python package to access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jasper primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and coverage for the `parrec2nii` utility within the nibabel library. Their work involved writing unit tests, acceptance tests, and mock implementations to validate functionality. The user also addressed issues related to the correct setting of the `qform_code` and the location of the executable for the `parrec2nii` binary. This resulted in more robust and reliable code, as well as improved the integration with other tools.
pythontckimagingtrkstreamlines
JasperVanDenBosch/rsatoolbox
Oct 2020 - Nov 2024
Python library for Representational Similarity Analysis
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 1 month
python-librarypythonsimilaritysimilarity-analysis
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