Kevin Rusch
Research Project Manager at University of Pennsylvania
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Rusch is a computational cognitive neuroscientist and research project manager with nine years of interdisciplinary experience spanning bioinformatics, dynamical modeling, and experimental neuroscience. Currently splitting his time between neuron-level transformer-based bioinformatics work at UMass Chan's Yemini Lab and metascience and project leadership at the Kording Lab (CENTER) at UPenn, he blends hands-on ML engineering with study design, grant writing, and manuscript preparation. His background in biochemistry and computational modeling underpins published work on cortical dynamics of consciousness and sensorimotor dynamical systems, and he’s comfortable moving between Python/C++ scientific code and advanced statistical analysis. Kevin also helps run Neuromatch Academy’s community and student experience programs, scaling education and researcher networks beyond the lab. Notably, he brings a DEI-informed perspective from committee work at UC Davis and operationalizing reproducibility and rigor in collaborative neuroscience projects. Based in Boston, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering to translate complex neural data into reproducible, actionable science.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at University of LondonSummer School, Computational Neuroscience, Summer School, Computational Neuroscience at Neuromatch AcademyMicromasters, Statistics and Data Science, Micromasters, Statistics and Data Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySummer School, Computational Neuroscience, Summer School, Computational Neuroscience at IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience ImbizoBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Computer Science at Merrimack College
English, German, Spanish, Latin, French
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Github Skills (39)
matlab10
wsi9
doi9
neuroscience9
image8
bam8
neurons8
java7
file-format7
mass-spectrometry7
metadata7
paper7
gnu7
microscopy7
nwb6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yemini-Lab/NeuroPAL_ID
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Research software for (semi-) automated detection and identification of neurons in images of NeuroPAL, extract ID’d neural activity traces from NeuroPAL;GCaMP animals, and upload these datasets to public repositories. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.12.012
Contributions:7 releases, 89 PRs, 736 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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NeuralStorm/MATLAB-offline-neural-analysis
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:108 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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