Undergrad Institution: Top 100 liberal arts universityMajor(s): Math and BiochemistryMinor(s): NeuroscienceGPA in Major: 3.1Overall GPA: 3.2Position in Class: AverageType of Student: Domestic MaleGRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 164 (88th percentile)V: 167 (98th percentile)W: 6.0 (99th percentile)
Graduate Institution: Top 5 Public UniversityDegree: M.S. Applied MathematicsGPA: 3.7Position in Class: ?Type of Student: Domestic MaleResearch Experience: 3 academic years in neuroendocrinology and biophysics (one third-authorship in a small journal). 2 REU's. 1 2nd-authored poster at SfN.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several awards for travel, summer research grant, academic scholarship (half of tuition), and awards for tutoring/mentorship.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 3.5 years of research at a premier neuroscience research institution. 2-3 posters authored (2 large-authorship and 1 first-authored). 3 publications (all large-authorship) in eLife, eNeuro, Nature with three more in preparation (1 3rd-author, 1 large-authorship, 1 potential first-authorship MS thesis) but probably no more than 1 submitted by application time. Possibly one or two more I'll be included on. Also work as a mentor for underprivileged science students. Several years of serious programming (software development-ish level) in Python with some Matlab.Special Bonus Points: Completed MS in Applied Math consisting of 36 credits (see above); very well-connected through my current institution Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Institution is very very well-known in neuroscience and pretty much universally-lauded (you could probably guess it).
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience especially dimensionality reductive approaches to large-scale datasets in mouse with calcium imaging and visionApplying to Where (tentative in no particular ordering):
CMU/UPitt - PNC (NC & ML) - Doiron, Kuhlman, Yu, Chase, Batista
UCL - Gatsby Unit - CortexLab (Harris and Carandini), Hausser, Mrsic-Flogel
UW - Neuroscience - Brunton, Shea-Brown, Fairhall, Gjorgjieva, Rao
Harvard - PiN - Cox, Harvey
Princeton - Neuroscience (QCN) - Berry, Bialek, Brody, Pillow, Tank, Witten
Columbia - Neurobiology and Behavior - Cunningham, Kriegskorte, Paninski
Stanford - MBC - Ganguli, Newsome, Yamins
UC Berkeley - Neuroscience - Adesnik, Sommer, Olshausen
UCSF - Neuroscience - Feinberg, Scanziani
Caltech - CNS - Meister, Siapas
UCSD - Comp. Neuro. - Callaway, Sejnowski, Voytek, Rangel, Azim
NYU - Neuroscience - Simoncelli, Rangan