Collaborative Research Project Meeting
Talk at Florida State University, Department of Psychology, Tallahassee, FL, USA
CV
Education
- B.S. in Statistics with Minors in Computational Science and Psychology, Florida State University, 2027 (expected)
- Campus Goldwater Scholar Nomination: 2026
- Palm Beach Seminole Club Scholarship: 2025
- Johnson Scholar: 2024, 2025, 2026
- A.A. in General Biology, Palm Beach State College, 2023
- Cum Laude Distinction
Work experience
- 2026-2027: Honors in the Major Researcher, Florida State University
- Thesis title: TBD
- Committee Members: TBD
- Supervisors: Assistant Professor of Statistics Partha Sarkar, Ph.D. (Florida State University), Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Mohamed Sherif, M.D., Ph.D (Brown University and Lifespan Physician Group).
- 2025-2027: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Brown University
- Duties included: Examine effects of sensory noise degradation on model behavior, and how it can be abstracted to represent psychiatric illnesses. Review recently published literature on the Thousand Brains System, Active Inference, and Predictive Coding.
- Supervisors: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Mohamed Sherif, M.D., Ph.D.
- Summer 2025: Carney Summer Scholar in Computational Brain Science
- Carney Institute for Brain Science - Brown University
- Duties included: Reviewing previously published literature on Monty, Thousand Brains Theory. Implement hierarchical connections within a sensorimotor learning model of a cortical column via Monty. Present poster at annual undergraduate summer research symposium at Brown, and at the Virtual Leadership Alliance National Symposium.
- Supervisors: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Mohamed Sherif, M.D., Ph.D. and Santiago Enriquez, M.Eng..
- Summer 2024: Summer Fellow in Neural Computation
- Center for Neural Basis of Cognition - Carnegie Mellon University
- Duties included: Reviewing previously published literature in an effort to replicate previously published work. Use Conda and CLI to utilize Churchhill Supercomputer via SSH connection. Presenting a poster via virtual recording and in-person symposium as well.
- Supervisors: Associate Professor of Psychology and Interim Director of Neuroscience Institute, Timothy Verstynen, Ph.D., Ph.D. Candidate Jack Burgess
- Summer 2023: Summer Institute Fellow in Biostatistics and Data Science
- Biostatistics Collaborative Core - Florida Atlantic University
- Duties included: Attending daily lectures from Biostatistics faculty members from Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, and University of Miami on various methodologies used in Biostatistics and general Data Science as well.
- Lecture topics: K-means clustering, Survey Design, Decision Trees, Linear and Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, R programming and data analysis, SAS data analysis.
- Supervisors: Biostatistics Collaborative-Core Director Katherine Freeman-Costin, Ph.D. (Florida Atlantic Unviersity), and Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at Zoran Bursac, Ph.D (Florida International University).
Skills
Public Speaking: Scientific Communication, Active Participant Involvement, Presentation Design
Coding and Programming: Python (Proficient), Matplotlib, SciPy, NumPy, Monty, Pandas, Keras, Cython, MATLAB (Beginner), R (Beginner), Conda environments, Linux
Computational Methods and Statistics: SAS Data Analysis, Bootstrap Hypothesis Testing, Linear/Logistic Regression, PCA, Optimization
Talks
Workshop: Python for Neural Data Analysis
Tutorial/Workshop at Florida State University, Department of Psychology, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Workshop: Intro to Computational Neuroscience / CompNeuroSociety General Body Meeting 1
Talk at Florida State University, Innovation Hub, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Service and leadership
- 2025-2026: President and Founder
- CompNeuroSociety
- Spearheaded growth of student organization to over 120 members from various colleges and departments across FSU in a short year.
- Led the preparation for accepted grant proposal ($14,450 USD) as the primary applicant to fund a collaborative Open Science computational neuroscience research project, which supported 3 faculty mentor stipends, and 8 undergraduate student stipends over the course of a semester.
- Collaborating with newly founded chapter of CompNeuroSociety at Florida International University led by Ethan Johnson.
- Mentors: Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Rodrigo OF Pena, Ph.D., Postdoc Juan Lopez, Ph.D., Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate Ty Roachford.
- Led the preparation of application materials for NeurIPS Bridging the Future grant to support undergraduate-led and faculty-mentored development of workshops and training materials related to the field of Brain Computer Interfaces, and AI/ML for Neural Data Science. (pending)
- Primary Applicant: Andre Quintero
- Faculty Sponsors: Professor of Scientific Computing, Anke Meyer-Baese, Ph.D.
- Organized a 4-hour Computational Neuroscience workshop over summer 2025 led by faculty and researchers from the Stiles Nicholson Brain Institute in Jupiter, Florida at no cost to participants.
References
- Timothy Verstynen, Ph.D.
- timothyv@andrew.cmu.edu
- Mohamed Sherif, M.D., Ph.D.
- mohamed_sherif@brown.edu
- Carmen Varela, Ph.D.
- c.varela@fsu.edu
- Jack Burgess, Ph.D.
- Katherine Freeman-Costin
- kfreemancostin@health.fau.edu