Ruud van den Brink (you can call me Rudy)

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I am a machine learning specialist with a background in computational neuroscience. I enjoy building socially responsible machine learning models in python. You can find recent examples here, and more on my github page.

In my neuroscientific work I studied why human brain activity is correlated across time and space, and how we make decisions. In this work I used machine learning tools and Bayesian modeling to infer how activity flows through the brain and results in choice behavior. This method is explained in more detail here.

I studied brain and cognitive sciences in Amsterdam, and received my PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Leiden University, the Netherlands, where I worked with Prof. Sander Niewenhuis. I then moved to a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Tobias Donner, in Hamburg, Germany.