Philip Cook
Senior Research Investigator
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Cook is a Senior Research Investigator at the University of Pennsylvania with 17 years of experience applying advanced image-processing and computational methods in research settings. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London and transitioned from postdoctoral and research fellow roles into a long-standing senior research position since 2011. An active contributor to the widely used ANTsX/ANTs image registration toolkit, he focuses on backend and cluster-oriented improvements that optimize job orchestration and the execution of core algorithms. Based in Philadelphia, he blends deep academic rigor with practical infrastructure engineering, often improving the reproducibility and scalability of computational neuroimaging workflows. Notably, his background in astrophysics and computer science gives him a cross-disciplinary perspective on large-scale data and modeling challenges.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at University College LondonPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University College London, U. of London
English
Github Skills (8)
sh10
cluster-computing10
script10
bash10
shell10
image-registration10
scripting10
image-processing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ANTsX/ANTs
Jun 2009 - Jan 2023
Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 21 reviews, 304 commits in 13 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily made changes to the buildtemplateparallel.sh script, modifying I/O, adjusting gradient step sizes, and incorporating a script to monitor job statuses. They also updated the waitForSGEQJobs.pl script to improve job monitoring, demonstrating a focus on optimizing and managing the execution of image processing tasks on a cluster environment. These modifications suggest they are improving the infrastructure for running the core image processing algorithms.
antsnormalizationimage-registrationimage-segmentationmedical-image-processing
cookpa/pipedream
May 2012 - Aug 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
pipelinesneuroimagingpipedreammachine-learning
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