Nicholas Duran
Associate Professor
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Duran is an associate professor and cognitive scientist with 11+ years of experience studying how complex cognitive processes are revealed in movement and language using large-scale, real-world data. He leads work at the Cognitive Dynamics and Communication Lab, blending experimental design, time-series modeling, and computational methods to quantify interpersonal coupling, detect deception and biases, and improve collaborative learning. Trained as a PhD in experimental psychology and a former NSF postdoctoral fellow, he pairs rigorous statistical and computational skills (MATLAB, R, Python) with extensive mentoring and grant leadership. Based in Austin, he applies corpus analytics and affordable computational tools to make behavioral science scalable and actionable, often translating subtle bodily dynamics into measurable markers of thought and communication.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Experimental Psychology (Cognitive), Bachelor of Science, Experimental Psychology (Cognitive) at University of California, RiversideDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental Psychology (Cognitive), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental Psychology (Cognitive) at The University of Memphis
Github Skills (22)
linguistics10
word2vec10
python10
nltk10
bootstrapping10
text-analysis10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
quantitative10
lexicon10
meta-analysis5
r-package5
sbml3
science3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
asucbi/bdsR1
Jun 2022 - Dec 2024
Behavioral Data Science in R I
Contributions:2 PRs, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
r-packagesciencedata-sciencesbmlpsychology
nickduran/align-linguistic-alignment
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Python library for extracting quantitative, reproducible metrics of multi-level alignment between speakers in naturalistic language corpora.
Contributions:2 releases, 276 commits, 22 PRs in 4 years 9 months
pythonnaturalisticphoneticscorpus-toolsword2vec
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