Summary
Thomas Possidente is a Doctoral Candidate and computational neuroscientist with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of machine learning, neuroimaging, and bioinformatics. He has applied ML and data engineering to large-scale biological sequence datasets, time-series classification, NLP and image analysis in industry settings and now focuses on perception and attention in the Somers Lab at Boston University. Skilled in Python, MATLAB, and statistical modeling, he brings hands-on experience from Draper and Brigham and Women's Hospital to academic neuroimaging experiments. His background in cognitive science and early work building unsupervised neural network models gives him a rare blend of theory-driven modeling and production-oriented engineering. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines rigorous experimental techniques with scalable data pipelines—evident in projects handling millions of protein sequences and diverse biomedical imaging challenges.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Vassar College
Eötvös Loránd University
High School, High School at Saratoga Springs High School
English, Spanish