Philip Shamash
Research Scientist at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Shamash is a research scientist and Python-savvy data analyst with a decade of experience dissecting systems, behavioral, and cognitive neuroscience across academia and industry. He transitioned from a PhD at UCL studying neural activity and behavioral modeling to applied neural interface research at Meta, bringing hands-on expertise in neurophysiology, behavioral modeling, and large-scale data pipelines. His background spans circuit- and cellular-level experiments through to computational analysis, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on experimental design and signal interpretation. Comfortable shipping analysis code and prototypes, he blends rigorous hypothesis-driven research with pragmatic engineering—an asset when moving neural insights toward usable interface technology.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Major in Neuroscience & Minor in French, B.S., Major in Neuroscience & Minor in French at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (12)
matlab10
connectivity9
bids9
slice5
mouse5
3d-models5
converting4
python4
metadata2
nwb2
reinforcement-learning1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BrancoLab/Common-Coordinate-Behaviour
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
philshams/allenCCF
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Tools to work with Allen Inst CCF data in matlab
Contributions:24 PRs, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
allenccfmatlab
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