Jonathan Nicholas
PhD Candidate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Nicholas is a cognitive neuroscience researcher and PhD candidate at Columbia University with 13 years of research and teaching experience bridging computational methods and human memory. He has applied quantitative techniques—from PCA and Bayesian models to neural networks—across labs at Stanford, Brown, and Columbia, and contributed educational material such as a Neuro-Cloud textbook chapter. Based in New York, he blends hands-on coding and experiment design with course development and mentoring, having taught computational cognitive science and designed MATLAB assignments. Less obvious: his background spans eclectic roles from radio programming to herpetology instruction, reflecting a knack for tailoring complex content to diverse audiences.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience at Columbia University in the City of New YorkNeuroscience and Philosophy, Neuroscience and Philosophy at King's College London, U. of LondonAdvanced Studies Diploma, Advanced Studies Diploma at Turner Ashby High SchoolIntegrated Environmental Science and Technology, Integrated Environmental Science and Technology at Massanutten Regional Governor's School
Github Skills (117)
refined10
source-port9
database9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
corpus8
topic-modeling8
nosql8
word2vec8
fasttext8
mbf8
gensim8
sdl7
lda7
glove7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
expfactory/expfactory-games
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 69 pushes, 17 comments in 8 months
jonathanicholas/dtm-fmri
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
braintime-varyingtopic-modelinglatentmodeling
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