Sergey Plis
Director Of Machine Learning at Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolSergey Plis is a director of machine learning and associate professor with 13+ years advancing computational neuroimaging and causal discovery from multimodal observational data. He leads translational research at TReNDS and Georgia State University, combining theory, algorithm design, and practical systems—work that helped secure $1.3M in NSF and NIH funding to study directed connectivity in the brain. An early adopter of deep learning in neuroimaging, he has pioneered complex time-series theories, efficient matrix factorization algorithms, and privacy-aware federated research frameworks. Sergey moves fluidly between hands-on engineering, academic rigor, and product-driven R&D (including co-founding Reason8.ai), pushing methods that make causal inference from real-world data more robust. Based in Atlanta, he balances bold research ambitions with a knack for practical impact—improving tools that let scientists infer mechanisms rather than just correlations. Outside the lab he’s the kind of multitasker who paints houses, travels frequently, and manages a busy household with three kids and multiple pets.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of New MexicoGeorgia State University
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Github Skills (51)
rendering10
tensorflowjs10
auc10
classifier10
classifiers10
segmentation10
medical-imaging10
pyodide10
mri10
javascript9
mlp9
neuroimaging9
3d9
deep-learning9
regression9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neuroneural/mindfultensors
Feb 2024 - Dec 2025
Dataloader that serves (f)MRI images from key-value databases (mongo and Redis to start with)
Contributions:8 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
dataloaderkey-value-databasemongodbredis
sergeyplis/gunfolds
Jan 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:166 pushes in 5 years 2 months
exploretruthunfoldcausalgraphs
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