John Pearson Research Group

Duke University

What algorithms and analysis tools will let researchers interpret terabyte-scale neural recordings to discover principles of brain function? The lab builds modeling and analysis pipelines for large-scale brain data and implements algorithms to interpret terabyte-scale neural datasets. Researchers design and implement dynamical-systems-inspired methods and engineering pipelines to link models with experimental data and suggest new hypotheses. The group collaborates with experimentalists to validate models against neural recordings and naturalistic behaviors like foraging and movie stimuli. The lab develops open software and data-sharing practices to enable reproducible analysis and community scrutiny of computational tools.