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I'm an Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Biophysicist, McLean Hospital and Director of the Technical and Instrumentation Core at the Brain Imaging Center. I received a BS in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

My training is in MR physics, and my PhD thesis is entitled “Three Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Sodium Ions Using Stochastic Excitation and Oscillating Gradients”. If stochastic NMR with oscillating gradients is the solution to your problem, I'd gently suggest finding a different problem. However, in doing my thesis I discovered a love of thinking hard about noise, and writing absurdly complicated software at (or past) the level of my actual coding abilities.

I'm also the Director of the McLean Hospital Opto Magnetic Group, and my research is focused on multimodal acquisition and processing for hemodynamic quantitation and physiological denoising of BOLD and NIRS data.

• I’m currently on a mission to try to convince people that they really should use rapidtide to properly denoise their fMRI and NIRS data. I get kind of fanatical about it. Double your SNR for no money!
• I really like trying to find what I consider gaps in the open source fMRI processing infrastructure, and filling them with code.
• Ask me about physiological noise, but only if you are either 1) actually interested or 2) need a sleep aid.