Matthew Cooke
PHD Student at The University of British Columbia
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Cooke is a PhD student and interdisciplinary researcher blending a decade of software and computational experience with neuroscience training from McGill and UBC. He builds data-driven analyses of behavior and neurogenesis—work rooted in his long tenure at the Jason Snyder Lab where he applied computer science methods to water maze and IEG datasets. Comfortable moving between research and applied roles, he has led software initiatives as president of a small firm and consulted across projects, bringing pragmatic engineering to lab-scale science. Based in Surrey, BC, he leverages his rare combo of CS and neuroscience to translate complex experimental data into reproducible computational pipelines and insights.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS Neuroscience at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at McGill University
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
entropy10
tuya9
pokemongo9
alarm9
home-assistant9
script9
spatial9
classification8
python8
telegram8
home-assistant-integration8
security7
slack7
docker7
raspberry-pi6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewBCooke/BirdNET-Pi
Apr 2023 - May 2025
A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
Contributions:8 PRs, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
classificationraspberry-pitflite
MatthewBCooke/Pathfinder
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
Search Strategy analysis and more for spatial navigation data in rodents
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 50 commits in 3 years 5 months
strategy-analysisentropypythonspatial-navigationspatial
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