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Joaquín Rapela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied
Computer Science at Universidad de Buenos
Aires. He worked at the IBM Almaden
Research Center as a software engineer. During his
graduate education Joaquín studied Neurosciences, Mathematics, and
obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Signal and Image Processing Institue of the
Univeristy of Southern California. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience of
the University of California San Diego, where he investigated human
cognition using electroencephalography (EEG). There he was awarded a seed
grant to develop dynamical models and statistical methods to model the activity
of ensembles of neurons. He was a research associate at the Truccolo Lab for Collective Neural Dynamics
& Computation where he studied dysfunctional neural mechanisms in epilepsy
using state-of-the-art signal processing and statistical methods. He is currently
a research engineer fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
of University College London, performing quality control, enhancing and distributing
statistical inferece methods for the characterization of neuronal population
recordings, and collaborating with scientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
on the application of these methods to state-of-the-art neural recordings.
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