Robert Alexander
Assistant Professor Of Psychology & Counseling at New York Institute of Technology
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Alexander is an NIH-funded cognitive scientist and Assistant Professor focused on how professionals interpret complex visual information in high-stakes settings, especially medical image perception and radiology. Over a decade he has combined rigorous eye-tracking and computational methods with translational research, authoring 20+ peer-reviewed papers and helping commercialize industry tools derived from his work. He builds durable, equity-centered research and training ecosystems—founding a student-centered lab and a tiered mentorship model that has helped underrepresented undergraduates secure external funding and research opportunities. His portfolio includes over $9 million in competitive grants and a Best Scientific Paper award, reflecting both scientific impact and practical relevance. Known for integrating mentorship into every project, he aligns federal priorities, institutional capacity, and workforce diversification to reshape how academic success is structured. Based in New York, he also brings clinical perspective as a medical doctor with IT and research fluency, enabling rapid translation between lab methods and healthcare practice.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at LIU PostDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (200)
datasets10
data-labeling10
visualization10
vsftpd10
gephi10
graph10
levenshtein10
wordcloud10
interactive10
string-matching10
packaging10
opengl9
surveillance9
nlp9
corenlp9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rjalexa/adsl-warn
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Email you when your ADSL line drops under certain threshold
Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 28 days
dropsemailthresholdadsl
rjalexa/frontend
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 78 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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