Mike Schmidt
Neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMike Schmidt is a neuroscientist and multidisciplinary technologist with 11 years of experience translating complex biological data into actionable insights using software engineering, neuroimaging pipelines, and gene expression analysis. Based at Columbia University Medical Center, he investigates cognitive control and emotion regulation while building reproducible workflows that bridge wet-lab genetics and computational neuroimaging. His background spans computer science, psychology, physics, and biology, and earlier roles in systems administration and low-level C/C++ development give him a rare fluency across hardware, software, and data. Mike delights in finding signals in noise—and lately has started probing the noise itself—combining curiosity-driven exploration with practical automation and visualization skills.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Computer Science, Psychology, Associate of Science, Computer Science, Psychology at Snow CollegePhD, Neuroscience, PhD, Neuroscience at University of Mississippi Medical CenterThe University of Utahgeneral science review, general science review at Holmes Community CollegeUsing the lean startup methodology to validate commercial hypotheses, Using the lean startup methodology to validate commercial hypotheses at NYC Media Lab
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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34answers
15questions
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Github Skills (92)
loops10
prediction10
econometrics10
regression-models10
hypothesis-testing10
unix9
linux9
statistics9
generalized-linear-models9
statsmodels9
argparse9
python9
bash9
bids9
forecast9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mfschmidt/ge_data_manager
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
A dockerized django/postgresql front-end to view and manage PyGEST results
Contributions:244 commits, 52 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 7 months
djangofrontendpostgresql
mfschmidt/PyGEST
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Python Gene Expression Spatial Toolkit
Contributions:172 PRs, 305 pushes, 100 branches in 2 years 11 months
pythongene-expressionspatialbioinformaticsgene
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