Remi Gau
Research Software Engineer at Inria
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolRemi Gau is a research software engineer at Inria with nine years of experience at the intersection of neuroscience and reproducible data science. He is a core developer of Nilearn, contributing machine learning, visualization, and statistical tools for neuroimaging in Python, and helps maintain the widely used BIDS standard where he has automated documentation checks and schema validations. Trained as a neuroscientist with a PhD and multiple postdoctoral roles, Remi blends deep domain expertise with pragmatic engineering—improving tooling, pre-commit workflows, and filename/schema consistency to make large-scale neuroimaging projects more reproducible. Based in Brussels, he champions open science and reproducibility, and his work often hides in the details that keep complex research pipelines robust and readable.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate, International, Baccalaureate, International at RCNUWCLicence, Biology & Physiology, Licence, Biology & Physiology at Université Montpellier IIDoctorate, Neuroscience, Doctorate, Neuroscience at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Master 2 research, Neuropsychology, Master 2 research, Neuropsychology at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)Master 1, Animal physiology, Master 1, Animal physiology at McGill UniversityDEUG, Psychology, DEUG, Psychology at Université Montpellier I
English, French, German
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bids-standard/bids-specification
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) Specification
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Automation Engineer
Technical Writer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 648 reviews, 165 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Remi primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and setting up automated checks. Their contributions involved implementing a script to identify and correct Latin abbreviations within the documentation, ensuring consistency and readability. They also created a script to check the order of entities within schema files. Furthermore, they updated the pre-commit configuration and added a legend for filename templates.
data-standardsbids-specificationneuroimagingbrainneuroscience
brainhackorg/brainhack_jupyter_book
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
A Jupyter Book of everything Brainhack: past, present and future.
Contributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 117 commits in 1 year 11 months
brainhackeverythingpythonjupyter-bookjupyterlab-extension
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