Shinya Ito
Scientist III at Allen Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShinya Ito is a physicist-turned-computational neuroscientist with 15 years of experience building and analyzing biophysically detailed models of mouse visual cortex and running large-scale silicon-probe electrophysiology experiments. At the Allen Institute he leads model development and hardware/software integration, combining hands-on recording (256-channel probes) with advanced statistical analysis to link circuit physiology to behavior. His work spans academia and industry roles, including high-impact publications (cover article in Journal of Neuroscience) and sustained contributions to experimental platform engineering. Based in Seattle, he brings deep quantitative training from a Physics PhD and a track record of turning complex datasets into mechanistic, reproducible models of sensory processing.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Hokkaido University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
simulation10
neuroscience10
agent-based-modeling10
computational-neuroscience10
neurons10
python10
simulator10
modeling10
nest9
simulation-framework9
cpp9
machine-learning8
nest-simulator8
tensorflow3
macos2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shixnya/transfer-entropy-toolbox
May 2011 - Feb 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
shixnya/v1_functional_property
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Functional properties of different cell types in the primary visual cortex (V1) derived from the Allen Institute extracellular electrophysiology (Neuropixels) data
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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