Andrew Kirjner
Cambridge,MA
Summary
PhD Student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Proficient in analysis and data modeling. Highly efficient and accurate with an analytical approach.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Research Assistant
Raymond Lab
09.2019 - 06.2021
- Performed analysis on data from experiments investigating motor control learning in the cerebellum. Research presented at Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome Conference, January 2021
- Implemented experimental protocols and maintained associated codebase
- Maintained Github Repository containing all lab code
Graduate Research Assistant
UCSF Neuroscape Lab - Body Brain Trainer
06.2019 - 06.2021
- Used EEGLab Toolbox in MATLAB and clustering methods to find latent topographical microstates in EEG data
- Used Python to consolidate data from thousands of patient trials, highlighted key results for presentations
- Ran patient trials and collected data, and conducted regression analysis on trial data
Software Engineering Intern
SoundHound Inc.
06.2018 - 09.2018
- Built a Music Theory Question Answering domain for their virtual assistant, Hound
- Answered questions like: What notes are in a C major chord? How do you play that on the piano?
Education
Ph.D. Student - Brain And Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA05.2026
Master of Science - Statistics
Stanford University, GPA 4.0/4.3
Stanford, CA06.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Stanford University, GPA 3.81/4.3
Stanford, CA06.2020
Programming Skills
- Python (Jupyter, Matplotlib, Pandas, Numpy, Scipy Collections, Plotly, Bokeh, Statsmodels, and Pickle), R, Matlab, C++, Github, SQL (Intermediate)
Professional Activities
- Chosen graduate student speaker at MIT NeuroTech Symposium, 2023
- Completed Neuromatch Academy 2020, an intensive course in computational neuroscience
Timeline
Graduate Research Assistant
Raymond Lab
09.2019 - 06.2021
Graduate Research Assistant
UCSF Neuroscape Lab - Body Brain Trainer
06.2019 - 06.2021
Software Engineering Intern
SoundHound Inc.
06.2018 - 09.2018
Ph.D. Student - Brain And Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - Statistics
Stanford University, GPA 4.0/4.3
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Stanford University, GPA 3.81/4.3