Pho Hale
Research Laboratory Technician
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolPho Hale is a research-focused software engineer and laboratory technician with nine years of experience building tools that enable long-term, multimodal behavioral neuroscience studies. Based in Ann Arbor, they lead development of an open-source "digital homecage" platform for longitudinal mouse behavior monitoring and combine wet-lab research with bioinformatics and software engineering. Prior roles include modernizing scientific visualization tools, parallelizing ecological simulations for HPC, and teaching parallel computing to domain scientists, reflecting a knack for translating research needs into robust, scalable code. Pho holds a BS in Computer Engineering and is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, blending deep technical engineering skills with domain expertise. Beyond typical lab tooling, they design systems that favor naturalistic, prolonged observation over brief assays—enabling more ecologically valid studies of stress and depression-like behavior. They publish code and resources publicly and maintain a professional site at PhoHale.com to share tools and findings.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (146)
visual-studio10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
jupyterlab10
decoding10
application-settings9
pylance9
jupyter-widget9
language-server-protocol9
replay9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CommanderPho/GraphicsRenderer
Apr 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 tags in 5 years 1 month
cocoapodsdrop-inpdfswiftios
CommanderPho/pyPhoCoreHelpers
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 709 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
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