Robert Mcdougal
Associate Professor
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
12 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 (149)
computational-neuroscience10
neuron-simulator10
alpha10
electrophysiology10
neuroscience10
circuit10
simulation10
ancestry10
docking10
gamma10
singing10
neurons9
matlab9
slice9
recreate9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ModelDBRepository/232097
May 2022 - Apr 2025
2D model of olfactory bulb gamma oscillations (Li and Cleland 2017)
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
simplexoscillationsbulbquaternionsgamma
ModelDBRepository/12631
Apr 2018 - Apr 2023
Computer model of clonazepam's effect in thalamic slice (Lytton 1997)
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 1 month
sliceneuron-simulator
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