Junda Zhu
Postdoctoral Scientist at Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJunda Zhu is a Ph.D.-trained neuroscientist and biomedical engineer with 9+ years of experience translating cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging research into clinical-impact projects. Currently a Postdoctoral Scientist in Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai, he combines hands-on neurosurgical insight with advanced machine learning to bridge lab discoveries and patient care. His work spans nonhuman primate experiments and human clinical datasets, contributing to multiple NIH- and NSF-funded studies and co-authoring papers in top-tier journals. He built a state-of-the-art data acquisition and analysis pipeline that boosted data curation efficiency by up to 200x, and has a strong record mentoring students who have gone on to doctoral programs. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare blend of technical rigor, clinical perspective, and a passion for deploying medical technology that measurably improves outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioinformatics at South University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Vanderbilt UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ioqfwfq/BLAST-and-Bowtie-Program-in-Perl-Version
Oct 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
fundamentalncbiweb-sitebowtie
ChristosLab/TaskTraining
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Behavioral Tasks for Developmental Assessment of Working Memory and Response Inhibition
Contributions:20 commits, 43 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
memoryassessmentbehavioral
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