William Snider
PHD Candidate
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Snider is a systems neuroscientist and PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins with eight years of experience building end-to-end experimental platforms that combine robotics, electrophysiology, and computational analysis. He designs and programs complex hardware and software—having built his lab’s NHP electrophysiology rig, integrated a Franka Emika Panda robot with C++/MATLAB control, and authored multi-threaded C++/Python experimental software. His research probes how the brain encodes 3D object shape during vision and grasping, and he develops tooling such as the vh_objects Python package to generate sophisticated 3D stimuli. William pairs deep wet-lab and animal-behavior experience with modern ML workflows for kinematic and contact analysis, and his work earned an F31 fellowship from the National Eye Institute. He also contributed a biologically grounded V1 model during Google Summer of Code, reflecting a rare combination of neuroscience, robotics, and production-grade software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Biochemistry at Columbia University
Github Skills (15)
nidaqmx8
simulation6
computational-neuroscience6
spiking-neural-networks5
gpu5
python4
ros4
code-generation3
mathematics3
splines3
amd2
gazebo-simulator2
nvidia2
geometry2
cuda2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
williamsnider/vh_objects
Mar 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:110 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
williamsnider/v1_project
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Code for creating a GPU-accelerated model of the mouse primary visual cortex
Contributions:91 commits, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
gpu
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