I am a research scientist at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at U.C. Berkeley. My work involves the development and implementation of new algorithms and tools for neuroimaging, with a special interest in functional MRI. I am also actively involved with the development of new tools for high-level scientific computing, mostly using the Python language. In this site, you can find more research details, including publications, as well as a subset of talks presented at various venues.
I am convinced that we need better tools for scientific computing and that the efforts of many to build them based on the Python language are starting to pay off in a way that will have significant benefits in the long run. I try to do my part on that front by working on IPython, the development of neuroimaging tools such as nipy (and especially its nitime component), and my contributions to various projects affiliated with the scipy stack. The Py4Science page contains details and material on this topic.
On campus, I coordinate an informal seminar every 2 weeks that is open to all, where we cover topics related to the use and development of Python for scientific research. If you are interested in using Python in your research, would like to learn more about it or have developed something you’d like feedback on, please stop by!
Fernando Perez
