PhD Dissertation: The Cortical Transformation of Sounds.Researched the neural basis of hearing at the Center for Neural Science at NYU. Skills:- Developed high performance Python software to collect and analyze sub-millisecond neural data in real time to understand how the brain encodes patterns of sounds.- Implemented extensive Python data frameworks using Pandas, QtPy, scikit-learn, numpy, scipy.- Built two-photon laser microscope for visualization of neurons in vivo.Teaching:- Neural Data Science (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Summer 2015.- Brain & Behavior (NYU), Fall 2011 & Spring 2013.- Biological Signal Acquisition and Analysis (Iowa), Spring 2008.Relevant references:Bornstein AM, Nylen EL, Steele SA. Unblocking the Neural Substrates of Model-Based Value. The Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 31(28):10117-10118. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/28/10117.full

Applying data science solutions to real world problems.Created http://asthedronefli.es, a web-app for drone route optimization using scikit-learn, MySQL, Pandas, Python, Flask, and AWS. Implemented unsupervised machine learning methods to predict clusters of optimal drone base placement. Visualized and interacted with big data to provide a framework for the NYPD to fight crime.

Retinal electrophysiology and clinical genetics.Relevant references:Thompson S, Stasheff SF, Hernandez J, Nylen E, East JS, Kardon RH, Pinto LH, Mullins RF, Stone EM. Different inner retinal pathways mediate rod-cone input in irradiance detection for the pupillary light reflex and regulation of behavioral state in mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Feb 1;52(1):618-23.Schindler EI, Nylen EL, Ko A, Affatigato L, Heggen A, Wang K, Sheffield VC, Stone EM. Deducing the Pathogenic Contribution of recessive ABCA4 alleles in an outbred population. Human Molecular Genetics, 2010, Vol 19, No 19, 3693-3701.