Teaching and Mentoring Experience
2015-Present SUNY Downstate semester-long graduate course in Computational Neuroscience (developed curriculum; taught 5 years).
2015-Present SUNY Downstate Mentor/Supervisor, 4 postdocs and 5 graduate students.
2020 VIII Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON), Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (link)
2019 Principles of Computational Neuroscience Course, Sassari University, Sardinia. (link)
2018 NEURON Summer Course, Emory University, Atlanta. (link)
2018 VII Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON), Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2016-2018 Bronx high-school of ScienceMentor,3 students for Intel Regeneron Science Talent Search (all reached semifinals).
2016 NYU Tandon School of Engineering semester-long undergraduate course Topics in Biology: Computational Neuroscience (developed curriculum).
2014 SfN’14 NEURON Workshop, Lecturer,Washington, US.
2009-2010 University of Plymouth, TAfor modules of BSc and MSc in Computer Science, UK.
Workshop and Tutorial Organization
2020 CNS’20 Workshop organizer, Tools and resources for developing and sharing models in computational neuroscience.(link)
2020 CNS’20 Tutorial organizer, Building mechanistic multiscale models, from molecules to networks, using NEURON and NetPyNE.(link)
2019 CNS’19 Tutorial organizer, Building biophysically detailed neuronal models: from molecules to networks, Barcelona.
2018 CNS’18 Tutorial organizer, Multiscale Modeling from Molecular to Large Network Level, Seattle.
2017 Bernstein Conference Workshop organizer, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Gottingen.
Invited Talks
2020 NSF CloudBank round table. NSF-funded researchers using Google Cloud. Nov 21./p>
2020 COMBINE’20 Workshop. Multiscale modeling with NetPyNE. Oct 9.
2020 University of Houston BME. Deciphering the brain’s neural code. Sep 17.
2020 CNS’20 Workshop. Machine learning and mechanistic modeling for understanding brain in health and disease, Online. July 18
2019 Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. C-BIN Seminar Series. Oct 7.
2019 CUNY Graduate Center. Neuroscience Collaborative Seminar Series. September 27.
2019 Brown University. Workshop on Multiscale Network Modeling. May 24.
2018 Google Next’18 London conference. Session: Computing with Power not Previously Possible. London, UK. October 11.
2018 Google HPC Hackathon. London, UK. October 9.
2018 MetaCell Webinar. Building Multiscale Brain Models. September 26.
2018 Google Next’18 San Francisco conference. Session: Computing with Power not Previously Possible. San Francisco. July 26.
2018 CNS’18 Workshop. Developing, standardising and sharing large scale cortical network models, Seattle. July 15.
2018 MIT. Inspired by Ramon y Cajal Talks, Boston. June 26.
2018 UC Davis. Center for Neuroscience. Davis. May 15.
2016 University of Sao Paulo. Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics, Sao Paulo, Brazil. April 11.
2015 New York University (NYU), Meet the Professional Series, Tandon School of Engineering. New York. April 24.
2013 Johns Hopkins University. Applied Neuroscience Seminar, Applied Physics Lab, Baltimore. June 5.
2010 University of Sheffield. Probabilistic Neural Computation. Sheffield, UK. Nov 15.
Outreach
2016-Present Neuroscience talks in middle/high schools. Spanish Scientists in USA (ECUSA), NY
2014 Afterschool neuroscience course. Developed and taught course at Brooklyn middle schools. New York Academy of Science, NY.
2011 Spanish and English as second language. Summer school in Dakar, Senegal.
2009-2012 STEM Ambassadors programme. Science engagement talks at schools and community colleges, Plymouth, UK.
