Jon Clayden
District Councillor at Literate Science
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Clayden is an interdisciplinary academic and software developer with 18 years’ experience applying R and C++ to medical image processing, neuroscience and data science. As an Associate Professor at UCL he leads research into brain imaging methods and clinical applications, building tools such as the TractoR platform and maintaining eight standalone R packages. He contributes robust back-end fixes to widely used open-source projects like dcm2niix (a key DICOM→NIfTI converter), showing attention to low-level data handling and portability. Alongside academia he runs a scientific copy-editing practice, advocating for clarity and expressiveness in technical writing. Recently elected District Councillor in England, he combines public service with an ongoing commitment to reproducible research and tooling. His background in computer science (Cambridge) and neuroinformatics (Edinburgh) underpins a rare mix of algorithmic rigor, practical software maintenance, and communication skills.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Neuroinformatics, PhD, Neuroinformatics at The University of EdinburghMA (Cantab), Computer Science, MA (Cantab), Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
dicom10
nifti10
cprogramming-language10
neuroimaging10
connections6
namespaces6
api6
matlab6
armadillo6
documentation6
qr-decomposition6
r6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rordenlab/dcm2niix
Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
dcm2nii DICOM to NIfTI converter: compiled versions available from NITRC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 40 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon's commits primarily focus on enhancing the robustness and functionality of the `dcm2niix` software, a DICOM to NIfTI converter. They made improvements to endianness checking, byte-swapping, and data handling within the DICOM processing code. Additionally, the user integrated changes from a "divest" release, added file format support, and addressed issues related to various DICOM image header and data elements.
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jonclayden/imbibe
May 2020 - Mar 2022
A Pipe-Friendly Image Calculator
Contributions:4 reviews, 74 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
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