Brian Wu
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Christa Studzinski
Brian completed a 4-month internship at OBI. His project was to create an open source catalogue of neuro-related data curation tools. He exceeded my expectations for this project, pulling together tools from across several modalities (imaging, neuropsych, wearables) into a very user friendly and visually appealing GitHub page. He was a great addition to the team!
Francis Jeanson
Brian is committed to his work and demonstrates real passion for neuroscience, health research, and technologies. His experience and knack for collaboration played a big role in our project's success. He is also a great communicator and took the initiative to engage with internal and external stakeholders. I look forward to working on a projects where Brian is also involved in the future.
Christa Studzinski
Brian completed a 4-month internship at OBI. His project was to create an open source catalogue of neuro-related data curation tools. He exceeded my expectations for this project, pulling together tools from across several modalities (imaging, neuropsych, wearables) into a very user friendly and visually appealing GitHub page. He was a great addition to the team!
Francis Jeanson
Brian is committed to his work and demonstrates real passion for neuroscience, health research, and technologies. His experience and knack for collaboration played a big role in our project's success. He is also a great communicator and took the initiative to engage with internal and external stakeholders. I look forward to working on a projects where Brian is also involved in the future.
Christa Studzinski
Brian completed a 4-month internship at OBI. His project was to create an open source catalogue of neuro-related data curation tools. He exceeded my expectations for this project, pulling together tools from across several modalities (imaging, neuropsych, wearables) into a very user friendly and visually appealing GitHub page. He was a great addition to the team!
Francis Jeanson
Brian is committed to his work and demonstrates real passion for neuroscience, health research, and technologies. His experience and knack for collaboration played a big role in our project's success. He is also a great communicator and took the initiative to engage with internal and external stakeholders. I look forward to working on a projects where Brian is also involved in the future.
Christa Studzinski
Brian completed a 4-month internship at OBI. His project was to create an open source catalogue of neuro-related data curation tools. He exceeded my expectations for this project, pulling together tools from across several modalities (imaging, neuropsych, wearables) into a very user friendly and visually appealing GitHub page. He was a great addition to the team!
Francis Jeanson
Brian is committed to his work and demonstrates real passion for neuroscience, health research, and technologies. His experience and knack for collaboration played a big role in our project's success. He is also a great communicator and took the initiative to engage with internal and external stakeholders. I look forward to working on a projects where Brian is also involved in the future.
Credentials
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UX Deep Dive: Analyzing Data
LinkedInJun, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
UX Deep Dive: Foundational Research
LinkedInMay, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
UX Deep Dive: Mapping
LinkedInMay, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
UX Deep Dive: Remote Research
LinkedInMay, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
UX Deep Dive: Usability Testing
LinkedInMay, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
UX Foundations: Research
LinkedInMay, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
SQL Essential Training
LinkedInJan, 2023- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Western University
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Researcher
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Sep 2022 - Present
● Leading 3 end-to-end research projects on the impact of stress on human performance ● Recruited and collected data from 35 human participants ● Regularly execute Qualtrics surveys to screen participants based on eligibility criteria ● Utilized surveys and eye-tracking to collect attitudinal and behavioral data ● Optimized experiment runtime by over 22% ● Performed data curation, analysis, and visualization in R, Python, and SPSS ● Presented experimental design and expected findings to internal and external stakeholders ● Cross-collaborate with researchers in other labs to execute research projects Show less
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Ontario Brain Institute
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Canada
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Neuroinformatics Analyst Intern
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May 2022 - Aug 2022
● Used iterative design to develop an open-source catalog of over 190 neuroscience tools on GitHub ● Performed semi-structured interviews of 22 researchers to gather information on various data curation tools ● Implemented fluid data management of all tools using Microsoft Excel ● Presented catalog to internal stakeholders and external stakeholders at Roche Canada ● Conducted focus groups to identify areas of concern on changes in recruitment policy ● Expanded on pre-existing Powerpoints to create summary PowerPoints of the Integrated Discovery Program Brain-CODE data releases Show less
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University of Toronto
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Rozeske● Discussed articles related to the neuroscience of fear, social dominance, and psychopathology in lab meetings● Created DeepLabCut pipeline in Google Collaborate to analyze mouse movements● Produced DeepLabCut documentation for other lab members to utilize● Presented and created slide deck to demonstrate DeepLabCut pipeline to other lab members● Optimized efficiency of DeepLabCut pipeline by over 900%
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Thesis Researcher
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Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. George Cree● Executed literature reviews on current neural network models of person perception● Created a neural network in Python to model how media influences impression formation● Performed manual object recognition on 1000 images to generate neural network training patterns● Conducted data analysis and visualization using Python● Experimented with learning rates, hidden units, and optimizers in a neural network using Tensorflow and Keras● Presented poster describing my work at UTSC Thesis Day and slide deck at the 2022 NeuroXChange Conference Show less
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Cendri Hutcherson● Conducted 3 studies studying how predictability influences impressions of morality and trustworthiness ● Performed literature reviews on impression formation● Designed experimental surveys on Qualtrics● Completed data manipulation and analysis of over 300 participants using R● Collaborated and brainstormed with internal stakeholders about computational modeling, framing effects, dual process models, and effects of attention on decision making● Ran experiments and collected data from participants using the eye-tracking hardware, EyeLink Show less
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Education
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2022 - 2024
Western University
Master of Science - MS, Neuroscience -
2018 - 2022
University of Toronto
Honours Bachelor of Science (with High Distinction), Neuroscience and Psychology
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