kitrak

I just received my PGS-D award! Selection committee 187 (Cellular and Molecular Biology) Some information about me: 0 peer-reviewed contributions (literally not a single paper publication) 14 non-peer-reviewed contributions (1 database, 1 neural decoding algorithm, 12 conferences mostly provincial and international with some local) My project is really cool and highly inter-disciplinary and collaborative (broadly neuroscience but touches epigenetics, stem cell-related molecular and cellular neuroscience, electrophysiology, systems neuroscience, and computational neuroscience). My undergraduate and graduate level education all contributed a lot to my current project (undergrad in Physiology and Genetics with a strong focus in neurophysiology and stem cells, while also taking computer science courses throughout, neuroepigenetics lab research) Won a prestigious national AI case competition in a field I was unfamiliar with 3 months prior to the competition (Natural language processing and sentiment detection in scientific language to classify and organize scientific articles) I'm also highly involved in my community with a strong emphasis in scientific communication (science rendezvous, lets talk science, publish lay articles, teach high school students science, present at seniors home, podcasts) Involved in research institute student body as well as graduate student society. Through this, I helped organize an institute-wide research retreat. Developed an open access database and currently working on another one for scientific data from my lab. You can get an award without publications!