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Testimonials#
After working alongside Max for three years at NIH, I must say he is a great to work with Data science wizard, who has the gift to transforms complex data and problems into meaningful and impactful insights. I wish I could incentive him to move to Europe.
Johannes Passecker, Assistant professor, Medical University Innsbruck
Max was my Teaching Assistant in a summer school in 2020 where he guided us to learn Machine Learning techniques useful for Neuroscience. Not only was he a great teacher during the school, he stayed with us long after the school day was over to clarify and make us understand the concepts clearly. Even after the entire school was done, he helped our group of 4 students in submitting our project to a conference to which it was accepted! His hard-working and amiable nature will be a great asset to any employer.
Tanvi Ranjan, Harvard PhD student (Now at Facebook Reality Labs)
Education#
Dnipro National University, Ukraine
1 year of Optics in Physics curriculum
Community College of Southern Nevada
Research project on antibacterial desert plants
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Biology BS
McNair Institute thesis in Bayesian analysis of behavioral data
Indiana University
Neuroscience PhD
Dissertation in optogenetic silencing and in vivo behaving multielectrode single-unit recording on a 12-arm radial maze
> six papers, one first-author
Work experience#
National Institute of Mental Health, 2018 - now
Laboratory of the Institute director, Joshua Gordon
Closed-loop stimulation and recording in T-maze
One published paper, four in progress (two first-author)
Design and deployment of complete codebase for ingesting and retrieval of relational databases (1-20 Tb)
Skills#
Programming#
Python, MATLAB , some C, some R
PEP 8
Git
Unit testing including mocking, fixtures
Data analytics at scale#
Python ML and statistics stack (scikit-learn, statsmodels, scipy, numpy, some jax)
Interactive visualization and dashborading with Altair and Bokeh/Panel
Markov chain Monte Carlo with GPU acceleration (numpyro, pymc)
Parallelization
Relational databases with direct acyclic graph
DevOps#
Linux (including realtime), Docker, emacs, zsh, package management
Comfortable with CLIs (click, argparse)
Sockets
GitLab CI, GitHub actions, Grafana
Integrating tricky SDKs
Static HTML from Python code
Bench biology#
Mouse and rat neurosurgery
Immunohistochemistry
Behaving mouse and rat recording and stimulation
General#
3d design and printing
Personnel training
Project management, Agile, Kanban
US citizen
Soft#
Self-guided learning and problem solving
Ability to evaluate timelines and plan ahead
Receiving and acting on critical feedback
Sensitivity to cultural differences
Demonstrated ability to lead a small team of scientists
Collaboration including teams inside and outside the organization
Technical writing for documentation and publications
Coursework highlights#
Graduate-level Electronics design (Physics department)
Differential equations in biology (Biology, Physics, and Cognitive science departments)
Bayesian statistics with Kruschke (IU) and McElreath (online)
Summer school in computational neuroscience (CRCNS), Berkeley University
Summer school in computational neuroscience (COSMO), Northwestern University
Teaching#
Teaching assistant (TA), Neuroscience lab
Training personnel in laboratory procedures and coding best practices (NIH)
Neuromatch academy lead TA for EST timezone (international online computational neuroscience school)