Paul Lafosse
PHD Candidate
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Lafosse is a Neuroscience PhD candidate with nine years of multidisciplinary research experience applying physics, computer science, and biology to probe cortical processing and neural computation. He designs and implements in vivo two-photon holographic optogenetics experiments, builds Python image and signal analysis pipelines, and trains teams to adopt cell-specific stimulation methods. His work spans microscopy, behavioral assays, and neural network models that decode and reconstruct natural visual stimuli from calcium responses, bridging experimental and computational approaches. Comfortable moving between hands-on lab engineering and large-scale data analysis, he has a track record of turning complex imaging and electrophysiology datasets into reproducible tools and presentations for diverse audiences. Notably, he optimized legacy scientific codebases and developed shareable Jupyter workflows to accelerate lab-wide adoption of advanced analysis methods.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at University of MarylandMaster of Science - MS, Biology - Neuroscience Concentration, Master of Science - MS, Biology - Neuroscience Concentration at George Mason UniversityBachelor of Arts in Physics - Biological Physics Option; Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts in Physics - Biological Physics Option; Minor in Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (21)
django3
clipper3
catalog3
orientdb2
python2
embedding2
wolfram-language2
nwb2
neuroscience2
machine-learning1
ipython1
gnuplot1
jython1
visualization1
jupyter1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lafosse/actin_model
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
lafosse/response2features
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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