Robert Mcdougal
Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Public Health
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Mcdougal is an assistant professor in health informatics at Yale with 12 years of experience bridging computational neuroscience, neuroinformatics, and text mining of health literature. He teaches graduate computational methods and leads research on extracting structured knowledge from publications while maintaining a strong engineering practice. As a longtime developer for the NEURON simulator and ModelDB, he built ModelView, the full-text search backend for model discovery, and authored NEURON’s original reaction–diffusion module. His background—PhD in Mathematics and a master’s in Computational Biology—combines rigorous theory with practical tool-building, and he actively shares his lab’s code on GitHub under mcdougallab. Notably, his work has made foundational simulation tools more accessible by converting the NEURON reference to Sphinx/Python and improving discoverability of computational models.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Masters, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Yale UniversityUMBCPh.D., Mathematics, Ph.D., Mathematics at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (176)
computational-neuroscience10
simulator10
neuron-simulator10
alpha10
neurons10
electrophysiology10
spiking-neural-networks10
simulation-framework10
neuroscience10
simulation10
ancestry10
gamma10
singing10
hpc-applications9
simulation-modeling9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ModelDBRepository/189154
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Multitarget pharmacology for Dystonia in M1 (Neymotin et al 2016)
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
multitargetpharmacology
ModelDBRepository/150245
Apr 2018 - Apr 2023
Sensorimotor cortex reinforcement learning of 2-joint virtual arm reaching (Neymotin et al. 2013)
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
cortexsensorimotorreinforcement-learningjointreinforcement
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