Paul Scotti
Chief Technology Officer at Princeton University
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Scotti is a CTO and computational neuroscience researcher with a decade of experience building multimodal AI systems at the intersection of neuroimaging and healthcare. He co-founded Sophont to develop open multimodal medical foundation models and concurrently conducts cutting-edge research at Princeton on real-time fMRI-to-image and self-supervised foundation modeling from brain recordings. His background spans an academic track from a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience to postdoctoral and research scientist roles, and industry leadership as Head of Neuroimaging & AI at Stability AI’s MedARC lab. Paul bridges rigorous neuroscience methodology with practical ML engineering, shipping systems that translate fMRI signals into interpretable models. Based in Oakland, he blends startup grit with academic depth, and maintains an open CV and research archive online that highlights both code and publications. Notably, his work emphasizes open, reproducible models for medical applications rather than proprietary black-box solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY, Magna cum laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY, Magna cum laude at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology at The Ohio State UniversityComputational Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience at Princeton University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
compression8
biomedical8
stochastic-processes8
machine-learning8
journal7
pytorch7
gpu7
multi-gpu7
neuroscience7
deep-learning7
optimization7
shell6
medical6
qsub6
mixture-of-experts6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MedARC-AI/fMRI-reconstruction-NSD
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
fMRI-to-image reconstruction on the NSD dataset.
Contributions:11 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 6 months
PaulScotti/inverted_encoding
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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