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Ned T. Sahin

Post-Doctoral Fellow   •   UCSD & Harvard

sahin [at] post.harvard.edu   •   www.NedSahin.com

Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Department of Radiology, MC 0841
8950 Villa La Jolla Dr., C101
La Jolla, CA, USA 92093-0841		 Post-Doctoral Fellow (visiting)
Harvard University, Psychology
Cognition, Brain and Behavior
William James Hall, room 964
Cambridge, MA, USA 02138


EDUCATION & TRAINING

2007- Post-Doctoral Fellow Univ. of California, San Diego Department of Radiology (Multi-Modal Imaging Lab)
2003-2007 Ph.D. Harvard University Psychology Department (Cognition, Brain & Behavior)
2000-2007 Doctoral Trainee (T32) MGH (Mass. General Hosp.) Athinoula A. Martinos Neuroimaging Center
2000-2003 M.S. MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department
1996-1997 Visiting Scholar Oxford University Exeter College (Credited year of B.A.)
1994-1998 B.A. Williams College Biology    and    Neuroscience


THESES

Ph.D.
Neural Circuits for Reading, Inflecting & Producing Words: Spatiotemporal Mapping with Human Intracranial Electrophysiology & fMRI.
Harvard, Department of Psychology. Degree dissertation, PhD degree. June, 2007.
  (Won the dissertation prize, across all departments at Harvard for 2007: “The Richard J. Herrnstein Prize: to the best dissertation -
  that exhibits the excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and a commitment to intellectual independence…”)

M.S.
Seeking the Neural Basis of Grammar: English Noun and Verb Morphological Processing Investigated with Rapid Event-Related fMRI and Intra-Cortical Electrophysiology.
MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Degree thesis, Masters of Science degree. June, 2003.

B.A.
Language and Brain: Effects of Arterial Occlusion on Human Brain Morphometry and Specific Language Abilities.
Williams College, Department of Biology. Honors thesis, Bachelor of Arts degree. June, 1998.


PAPERS

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S.S., Schomer, D., & Halgren, E., “Sequential Processing of Lexical, Grammatical, and Phonological Information within Broca’s Area.” Science, 326: 445-449 (2009). [more info & PDF]

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Wang, C., Thesen, T., Cash, S.S., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., & Halgren, E., “Dual-pass dynamics from early visual to high-order language circuits: evidence from intracranial electrophysiology (ICE).” (Unpublished manuscript – to be submitted)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Wang, C., Thesen, T., Cash, S.S., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., & Halgren, E., “Functional connectivity in the brain’s language network: phase locking among Broca’s, Wernicke’s, Visual Word Form, and Early Visual areas during reading and grammatical processing.” (Unpublished manuscript – to be submitted)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., & Halgren, E. “Inflecting Nouns and Verbs May Be More Similar than Different: Convergent evidence from fMRI and Intracranial Electrophysiology (ICE).” (In preparation)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., & Halgren, E. “Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca’s Area: Evidence from fMRI.” Cortex, 42(4): 540-562, 2006. [PDF]

Caviness, V.S., Makris, N., Montinaro, E., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.F., Schwamm, L., Caplan, D., & Kennedy, D.N. “Anatomy of stroke, Part I: an MRI-based topographic and volumetric System of analysis.” Stroke, 33(11): 2549-56, 2002. [Based on undergraduate thesis work.]

Caviness, V.S., Makris, N., Montinaro, E., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.F., Schwamm, L., Caplan, D., & Kennedy, D.N. “Anatomy of stroke, Part II: volumetric characteristics with implications for the local architecture of the cerebral perfusion system.” Stroke, 33(11): 2557-64, 2002. [Based on undergraduate thesis work.]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS • ORAL

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Wang, C., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., and Halgren, E. “Coherent Activity in Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas in Delta and Theta Bands During Noun and Verb Inflection, As Revealed Through Human Intracranial EEG.” Oral presentation (no parallel sessions). 10th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, 2006: Boston, MA. (Won competitive student fellowship.)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Wang, C., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., and Halgren, E. “Coherent Activity in Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas in Delta and Theta Bands During Noun and Verb Inflection, As Revealed Through Human Intracranial EEG.” Oral presentation (no parallel sessions). Architecture of Language Conference, 2006: Pisa, Italy.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Dale, A., Ulbert, I., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Human in-vivo Electrophysiology of Language Grammar – Bridging Computational, Systems and Cognitive Approaches.” Program number 32 (no parallel sessions). Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), 2005: Salt Lake City, UT. (Invited by Nature Neuroscience editor-in-chief to write a paper for the journal (Research Article length), based on this talk.)

Sahin, N.T., Halgren, E., Schomer, D., Wu, J., Dale, A., and Pinker, S. “Convergent In-Vivo Electrophysiology and fMRI in Broca’s Area: Profiling Abstract Grammar Computation.” Program number 595.6. Society for Neuroscience, 2004: San Diego, CA.

Sahin, N.T., Halgren, E., Ulbert, I., Wang, C., Schomer, D., Wu, J., and Pinker, S., “Convergent Event-Related fMRI & Depth Electrophysiology in Broca’s Area During Noun and Verb Grammatical Processing.” Program number 770.2. Society for Neuroscience, 2003: New Orleans, LA. (Won competitive travel award from local Soc. for Neuroscience chapter.)


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS • POSTERS

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Thesen, T., Cash, S., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., and Halgren, E. “Tracking Neuronal Activation and Information from Visual Input to Linguistic Output – Combined Intracranial Recordings and fMRI during Reading and Speaking.” Poster number 697 M-AM. Human Brain Mapping, 2008: Melbourne, Australia. (Abstract rated in the top 50 (of 2000) and invited to be featured in the highlights presentation at the closing ceremony of the conference.)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Neuronal Populations in Broca’s Area Process Grammar versus Articulation at Separate Times: Convergent Evidence from Human Intracranial Recordings and fMRI.” Poster number 698 M-PM. Human Brain Mapping, 2008: Melbourne, Australia.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Ulbert, I., Dehghani, N., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Depth Electrode Recordings in Broca’s Area Reveal 3-Stage Process for Grammatical Inflection.” Poster number 155 T-AM. [Citation: NeuroImage 36(S1): S63]. Human Brain Mapping, 2007: Chicago, IL. (Won competitive travel fellowship.)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Ulbert, I., Dehghani, N., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Multimodal and Multi-Scale: Convergent Human Single-Unit, LFP, and fMRI Characterization of Neuronal Activity in Cingulate/SMA During Language Production.” Poster number 154 T-PM. [Citation: NeuroImage 36(S1): S75]. Human Brain Mapping, 2007: Chicago, IL.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Meng, N., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Inflecting Nouns and Verbs May Be More Similar than Different: Evidence from fMRI and Intracranial Electrophysiology.” Poster number 156 T-PM. [Citation: NeuroImage 36(S1): S75]. Human Brain Mapping, 2007: Chicago, IL. (Abstract rated in the top 65 (of 2200) and invited to be featured in the highlights presentation at the closing ceremony of the conference.)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S., Thesen, T., Wang, C., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., and Halgren, E. “Communication Between Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas Detected with Intracranial Electrophysiology in Awake Humans.” Poster number 152 T-PM. [Citation: NeuroImage 36(S1): S74]. Human Brain Mapping, 2007: Chicago, IL.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., and Halgren, E. “Beware the Baseline: Right-Hemisphere Activation Restricted to the Baseline Condition of a Language Paradigm Challenges this Common Task and May Suggest a Default-Mode Pathway.” Poster number 153 T-AM. [Citation: NeuroImage 36(S1): S63]. Human Brain Mapping, 2007: Chicago, IL.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Wang, C., Devinsky, O., Kuzniecky, R., Doyle, W., and Halgren, E. “Intracranial Electrophysiology and the Wernicke-Geschwind Model.” Poster number M-260. [Citation: NeuroImage 31(S1): S56]. Human Brain Mapping, 2006: Florence, Italy.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Ulbert, I., Dehghani, N., Wang, C., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Single Unit Recordings in Human Anterior Cingulate During A Language Task.” Poster number 81. 30th Annual Massachusetts General Hospital Research Symposium, 2006: Boston, MA.

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Ulbert, I., Dehghani, N., Wang, C., Papavassiliou, E., Schomer, D., and Halgren, E. “Single Unit Recordings in Human Anterior Cingulate During A Language Task.” Program number 771.4, poster number 0014. Society for Neuroscience, 2005: Washington, DC.

Sahin, N.T., Halgren, E., Schomer, D., Wu, J., Dale, A., and Pinker, S. “Human In-Vivo Electrophysiology and fMRI Evidence for Abstract Grammatical Processing in Broca’s Area.” Fourth Annual MIT-RIKEN Neuroscience Symposium – New Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2004: Cambridge, MA.

Sahin, N.T., Halgren, E., Ulbert, I., Dale, A., Schomer, D., Wu, J., and Pinker, S. “Abstract grammatical processing in Broca’s Area: Evidence from fMRI and Intra-cranial electrophysiology.” Program number MO 144. [Citation: NeuroImage 22(S1): e232-e234]. Human Brain Mapping, 2004: Budapest, Hungary. (Won competitive travel fellowship from conference sponsors.)

Sahin, N.T., Halgren, E., Dale, A., Busa, E., and Pinker, S., “Inflectional Morphology of Nouns and Verbs shows fMRI activation of Broca’s and Related Areas.” Program number 1354. [Citation: NeuroImage 19(2) Suppl. 1: e2684-e2688]. Human Brain Mapping, 2003: New York City. (Won competitive travel fellowship from conference sponsors.)

Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Greve, D., van der Kouwe, A., Dale, A., and Halgren, E., “Dissection of the Components of Inflectional Morphology Using Event-Related fMRI.” Program number 189. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003: New York City.

Makris, N., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.W., Patti, M.R., Meyer, J.W., Caplan, D.N., Caviness, V.S., Jr., and Kennedy, D.N., “MRI-based Volumetric Analysis of Anatomical Consequences of Stroke.” Human Brain Mapping, 2001: Brighton, United Kingdom.

Makris, N., Sahin, N.T., Bates, J.W., Patti, M.R., Meyer, J.W., Caplan, D.N., Caviness, V.S., Jr., and Kennedy, D.N., “MRI-based Volumetric Analysis of Subcortical Consequences of Stroke.” Society for Neuroscience, 2000: New Orleans, LA.

Sahin, N.T., Makris, N., Bates, J.F., Patti, M.R., Meyer, J.W., Kennedy, D.N., Caplan, D.N., and Caviness, V.S., Jr., “MRI-Based Topographic and Quantitative Mapping of Stroke” Poster number 692. [Citation: NeuroImage 7(4): S692]. Human Brain Mapping, 1998: Montreal, Canada.


AWARDS & HONORS

  • (2007)    Harvard PhD Dissertation Prize. “The Richard J. Herrnstein Prize: to the best dissertation – that exhibits the excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and a commitment to intellectual independence that are in keeping with the terms of the prize and the memory of Professor Herrnstein“. Prize includes an award of $5,000.
  • (2004-2007)    NRSA Institutional Training Grant, NIMH (T32 MH070328). “Graduate Training in Psychology and Neuroimaging.” Multi-center multidisciplinary grant linking Harvard Psychology Dept and the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. $17,000 Stipend + $18,000 Tuition coverage per year.
  • (2004-2006)    Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. Phase II: direct $730,000 + $50,000 (maximum awarded) “SENSORS: System for Evaluating Neurological Stress with Objective & Remote Sensors” Principle Investigator. A project for the Army to create a system to predict critical cognitive stress in soldiers.
  • (2004)    Graduate Student Award. Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) interfaculty initiative at Harvard: $5,000 stipend (maximum awarded), for interdisciplinary study of the neural processing of abstract Grammar beyond language.
  • (2004)    Fellowship. Dartmouth Summer Workshop in fMRI Informatics, fMRI Data Center. Six-day session.
  • (2004)    Sackler Scholarship in Psychobiology. $5,000 stipend (maximum awarded) from the Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation. For advanced research in psychobiology with clinical relevance.
  • (2003)    Small Business Innovation Research grant (SBIR A03-063). Phase I: $70,000 direct (maximum awarded) “SENSORS: System for Evaluating Neurological Stress with Objective & Remote Sensors.” Principle Investigator. Won on first attempt.
  • (2003)    Elsie Hopestill Stimson grant for graduate research (Harvard). $3,500 stipend (maximum awarded). “In-vivo human multi-unit activity (MUA) electrophysiology and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) to investigate tight neural coupling with dissociable processes in human Language processing.”
  • (2003-2008)    Graduate Student Fellowship, Harvard Department of Psychology. Tuition for 5 years, $20,000/yr stipend for 3 years.
  • (2003)    Walle Nauta Award for Continuing Dedication to Teaching. MIT.
  • (2002-2004)    Student Representative to Faculty, Cognitive Neuroscience Group, MGH Martinos Center.
  • (2001-2004)    Student and Post-Doc Representative to the Faculty, MGH Martinos Center. Attend faculty meetings.
  • (2001)    Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. MIT.
  • (2000-2003)    Graduate Student Fellowship, MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Tuition + $20,000/yr Stipend.
  • (1998)    Class of 1960 Scholar. Williams College, Neuroscience Department.
  • (1996)    Class of 1960 Scholar. Williams College, Biology Department.


INVITED TALKS

Date

Organization

Talk Series / Department

City

Title
2010-05-25 Max Planck – Ernst Strüngmann Institute Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging Frankfurt Intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE) of language: chronicling spatiotemporal stages and connectivity from visual input to motor output.
2010-05-24 San Raffaele University Brain Mapping Milan Neurophysiology of human language: spatiotemporal stages and connectivity revealed with intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE).
2010-05-21 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Nijmegen, Netherlands Electrophysiology of language: chronicling spatiotemporal stages and connectivity from visual input to motor output using intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE).
2010-05-20 University Medical Center – Utrecht Rudolf Magnus Institute Utrecht, Netherlands Electrophysiology of language: chronicling spatiotemporal stages and connectivity from visual input to motor output using intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE).
2010-05-19 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Dept. of Neuropsychology – Language Series Leipzig, Germany Intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE) of language: chronicling spatiotemporal stages and connectivity from visual input to motor output.
2010-05-18 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Institute Weekly Colloquium Tübingen, Germany Computational stages and cortical connectivity during language production, revealed with intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE).
2010-05-04 Univ of California San Diego Cognitive Neuroscience Brownbag Lunch La Jolla, CA Sequences of computation and cortical connectivity during language production, revealed with intra-cranial electrophysiology (ICE).
2010-05-01 Kavli Institute / Inst. for Neural Computing Neurosciences Spring Retreat La Jolla, CA Sequential Processing in Broca’s Area of Word Identity, Structure, and Sound:
Revealed with Intra‐cranial Electrophysiology (ICE).
2009-11-09 Stanford University Department of Psychology Palo Alto, CA From cells to psycholinguistics: Language-related patterns from single-unit to system level.
2009-11-04 Princeton University Neuroscience & Psychology Depts. Princeton, NJ Multitasking in Broca’s Area and Network-Wide Connectivity from V1 to Broca’s.
2009-11-04 Yale University Neurosurgery Grand Rounds satellite New Haven, CT Multitasking in Broca’s Area and Network-Wide Dynamics from V1 to Broca’s – An End to “Broca’s speaks and Wernicke’s listens”
2009-11-03 New York University Dept. of Psychology & Comprehensive Epilepsy Ctr New York City Sequential processing within and connectivity among language-related neuronal populations
2009-02-02 Univ. of California, Berkeley Robert Knight Laboratory Berkeley, CA Mapping the brain’s language: modular activity within and connectivity among language-related neuronal populations
2008-01-28 Univ. of California, San Diego Marta Kutas Laboratory San Diego, CA Neural Circuits for Reading, Inflecting and Producing Words: Spatiotemporal Mapping with Human Intracranial Electrophysiology and fMRI
2006-06-06 RWTH Aachen University Psychiatry Neuroimaging Series Aachen, Germany fMRI and Human Intracranial EEG Investigations of Noun & Verb Processing
2006-05-31 University of Bonn Medical Psychology Research Lectures Bonn Chronicling Connectivity Between Broca’s & Wernicke’s Areas via Human Intracranial Recordings and fMRI
2006-04-13 Harvard Cognition, Brain & Behavior Seminar Cambridge, MA Neuronal Circuits for Sequencing Stored Linguistic Elements
2005-06-03 Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance MRI Research Seminar Copenhagen Speaking in the Brain’s Language: from Single Units to fMRI Blobs
2005-06-02 Karolinska Institute Cognitive Neuroscience fMRI Stockholm Speaking in the Brain’s Language: from Single Units to fMRI Blobs
2004-10-13 Georgetown University Brain & Language Lab Washington, DC Noun & Verb Morphosyntax in Broca’s Region: convergent fMRI and In-vivo Electrophysiology
2004-06-08 San Raffaele University Brain Mapping Milan Grammar in Broca’s Region: fMRI and In-Vivo Electrophysiology
2004-05-06 Harvard University Cognition, Brain & Behavior Seminar Cambridge, MA Grammar and Broca’s region: In-vivo electrophysiology and fMRI studies
2004-05-03 MIT Brain Lunch Seminar Cambridge, MA In-vivo electrophysiology and fMRI convergence in Broca’s region for human language grammar
2004-01-07 UCLA Medical School Brain Mapping Los Angeles Convergent Event-Related fMRI & Depth Electrophysiology in Broca’s Area During Noun & Verb Grammatical Processing
2004-01-07 Univ. of Southern California Visual Cognition Los Angeles Convergent Event-Related fMRI & Depth Electrophysiology in Broca’s Area During Noun & Verb Grammatical Processing
2004-01-06 Massachusetts General Hosp. Neuropsychiatry Seminar Charlestown, MA Convergent Event-Related fMRI & Depth Electrophysiology in Broca’s Area During Noun & Verb Grammatical Processing
2002-11-19 MIT Cognitive Lunch Seminar Cambridge, MA Inflectional Processing of Nouns & Verbs in the Brain
2002-09-17 Cambridge University Cambridge-MIT Institute Morphology Workshop Cambridge, UK Inflectional Processing of Nouns & Verbs in the Brain


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • (2004)    Harvard University. Head Teaching Fellow: “The Human Mind” (Prof. Steven Pinker)
    Managed 10 teaching fellows (20 sections). Managed all course logistics, policies, and teaching team. New course in Harvard’s undergraduate Core curriculum.
  • (2003)    MIT. Teaching Assistant and Oral Presentation Coach. “Brain Laboratory Methods” (Prof. Jim DiCarlo)
    Won the Walle Nauta Award for Continuing Dedication to Teaching (based on student and faculty evaluations).
  • (2002)    MIT. Teaching Assistant. “Introduction to Psychology” (Prof. Steven Pinker)
    Won the Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (based on student and faculty evaluations).
  • (1997)    Williams College. Teaching Assistant. “Biology 102 – The Organism”
    Appointed “Class of 1960 Scholar” partly in recognition of teaching performance (101 + 102).
  • (1996)    Williams College. Teaching Assistant. “Biology 101 – The Cell”


AD-HOC REVIEWING

  • Brain
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Brain and Langauge
  • Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • Lingua


PROFESSIONAL COURSES

  • (2005)    “Negotiation”. Harvard Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School. (13-week intensive course, 10 hrs/wk)
  • (2004)    “Summer Workshop in fMRI Informatics” Dartmouth fMRI Data Center. (3-day course in 6-day session)
  • (2003)    “Combining fMRI & EEG” Human Brain Mapping annual meeting. (1-day symposium)
  • (2003)    “fMRI Course” Human Brain Mapping meeting. (1-day course)
  • (2001)    “fMRI: Data Acquisition and Analysis” MIT: HST 583. (full-semester 12-unit graduate course)
  • (2000)    “Visiting Fellows Program in fMRI” MGH Martinos Center. (5-day intensive course)


SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

  • (2002- )    Sigma Xi
  • (2000-2005)    Science’s Next Wave, AAAS (MIT & MGH Campus Representative)
  • (2000- )    Society for Neuroscience
  • (2000- )    Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • (1998- )    Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • (1998- )    Renaissance Weekends
  • (1998- )    Mensa
  • (1997- )    Gargoyle Society (Williams College honor and service society)
  • (1997- )    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)


LABORATORY SKILLS

  • Intra-cranial Electrophysiology (ICE) – expert in acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of direct in-vivo recordings from the living human brain. Includes single-cell recordings as well as multi-unit activity and local field potentials.
  • fMRI – expert in experiment design, acquisition, analysis, data visualization, and interpretation.
  • Other current methods: scalp EEG, MEG, and behavioral testing.
  • Previous methods: small animal stereotaxic surgery & care, immunohistochemistry, MRI and light microscopy, HRP retrograde labeling, BrdU staining.


COMPUTING SKILLS

Skilled in packages and protocols for scientific data analysis, image processing, databasing, web, and remote computing.

  • Technical Packages: FreeSurfer and FS-FAST (MGH), Neuroscan (Compumedics), MRIcro, DataView, Presentation (Neurobehavioral Systems), MRI embedded control software (GE & Siemens).
  • Programming: Tcl, advanced SQL, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, WordPress, advanced Linux shell scripting (e.g., 1000-line scripts to support fMRI analysis software).
  • Hardware: Build and maintain custom computers for lab and home. Expert in most networks and peripherals.
  • OS/Shell experience: Linux, Windows, Unix, DOS, MacOS, OS/2, CP/M, VMS.
  • Database: Mission-critical Oracle and Sybase systems: programmed, administered, and extensively queried; in corporate and research environment. MS Access expert. Implemented custom databases to combine linguistic corpora, generate experimental stimuli automatically, support ICE and fMRI data analysis, and manage and pay experimental subjects.
  • Graphics/Productivity: Expert User of most standards, e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop; Acrobat; Dreamweaver; MS Office.


CORPORATE EMPLOYMENT

  • (2002-2005)    TIAX, LLC. Senior Technologist. Specialist in medical imaging technologies. Principle Investigator (Phase I and II), SBIR project for Department of Defense (see above, in Awards). Cambridge, MA.
  • (1999-2000)    Lucent Technologies. Project Manager and Technical On-Site Consultant. Member, Bell Labs Technical Staff. Managed 5-person project team on client site in Dublin. Member of project teams on site in Dublin and Madrid. Programmed large-scale mission-critical Oracle databases. London, UK.
  • (1998-1999)    Kenan Systems. Software Project Consultant, Telecommunications Software. Programmed Oracle and Sybase databases to translate business needs of clients. Clients included major telecommunications companies. The software products were systems to manage billing and customer care. Trained in Unix, RDBMS database, C; and client-interface and managerial skills. Cambridge, MA.


CORPORATE BOARDS

  • (2003- )    Fitness Forward. Non-profit aimed to promote healthy lifestyle and reduce childhood obesity. Science, Research, and Technology Translation Officer, Operating Advisory Board.
  • (2008- )    BodySure, Inc. Biomedical imaging startup.


REFERENCES

  • Steven Pinker, PhD (M.S. and Ph.D. advisor ) [www]
  • Eric Halgren, PhD (Postdoctoral advisor ) [www]
  • Sydney S. Cash, MD, PhD (Mentor & Collaborator ) [www]
  • Verne S. Caviness, Jr., MD, D.Phil (B.A. thesis co-advisor ) [www]
  • Marsel Mesulam, MD (Internship advisor ) [www]


PERSONAL

  • Traveled in over 40 countries.
  • Developed marketable software code for neuroimaging data analysis and visualization.
  • Managed electronic technical support forum for MGH neuroimaging software users.
  • Six patents pending. Two trademarks issued.
  • Rowed at international level (competed at Henley for my Oxford college); and at Williams, MIT, and Harvard.
  • Active in alumni organization of Williams College; and Exeter College, Oxford.
  • Devoted hobby photographer.
  • Intermediate French and basic Turkish.