Javier Castillo
Senior Associate Scientist
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJavier Castillo is a Senior Associate Scientist with over 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience at the intersection of fMRI, cognitive neuroscience, and AI, currently leading research at NIMH on resting-state dynamics and whole-brain connectivity. Trained originally as an electrical engineer and early-career developer at Hewlett-Packard, he blends strong programming and project-management habits with rigorous neuroscience methods and tools like Python, MATLAB and AFNI. He has authored 70+ peer-reviewed papers including first-author work in PNAS and Neuron, and mentors early-career scientists who have gone on to top graduate programs. Beyond experiments and analysis, he actively improves lab infrastructure to promote reproducible, collaborative science and data sharing. He also maintains academic ties internationally as an affiliated researcher at BCBL and a volunteer professor, reflecting a commitment to translating technical advances into broader scientific impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Ph.D., Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, French, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
signal-processing9
echo9
brain-imaging9
connectivity9
python9
neuroimaging9
bids9
statistical-inference8
mri7
statistics6
visualization5
graphic4
idris3
matplotlib2
holoviews2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nimh-sfim/me_staticfc
Dec 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 release, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
nimh-sfim/hcp7t_fv_sleep
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 136 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 5 months
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