Contact
Sven Eberhardt 170 Waterman St., Apt 6 02906 Providence, RI |
Employment
07/2015 — present |
PostDoctoral researcher position at Serre Lab, Brown University |
04/2013 — 06/2015 |
PhD position in Cognitive Neuroinformatics, AG Schill, Uni Bremen |
| 03/2012 — 03/2013 | Joint research scholarship position in Human Neurobiology, AG Fahle and Cognitive Neuroinformatics, AG Schill, Uni Bremen |
| 11/2010 — 12/2011 | Scientific assistant (WiMi) at the Institute of Human Neurobiology, University of Bremen |
| 11/2004 — 10/2010 | Student assistant at the Institute of Human Neurobiology, University of Bremen. Development of optical stimuli for fMRI, psychophysics, et. al. in C++, MatLab |
| 05/2000 — 08/2008 | Part-time freelance development of PC game Clonk, see http://www.clonk.de/. |
See research topics for a list of projects and publications I am working on.
Education
03/2012 — 06/2015 |
PhD in Computer Science, Computational Neuroinformatics, University of Bremen, Germany |
08/2009 — 09/2010 |
Physics Diploma in Theroretical Neuroscience |
| 10/2008 — 07/2009 | Visiting student at The Center for Biological & Computational Learning, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge (USA) |
| 08/2007 — 08/2008 | Study of Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Bremen |
| 09/2006 — 09/2007 | Study of Physical Oceanography at the Ocean University of China, Qingdao (1 year scholarship) |
| 10/2003 — 08/2006 | Study of Physics, Vordiplom/Diplom, University of Bremen |
Skills
Research: Deep Learning Networks, Computer Vision, Computational Neuroscience, Psychophysics, Environmental Physics, fMRI evaluation, Eye Tracking. PhD in Computer Science.
Main Languages: C++ (12y), Matlab (6y), Python (3y). Windows and Linux.
Used Languages / tools:caffe deep learning, TensorFlow, Bash scripting, Flask, Low-level networking (TCP/UDP sockets), Qt, OpenGL, DirectX, OpenAL, OGRE, Vizard, PHP, MySQL, Pascal, x86 assembler, RegExps, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and others. Cluster usage (MIT CSAIL BORG cluster (Condor), Brown CCV cluster (SLURM)), Version Control (GIT, Mercurial, SVN), Arduino, RasPi, LaTeX, Office, Image processing, 3D modeling/animation. Windows and Linux.
Teaching: Brown University: Deep Learning hacker's course, Computational Vision Deep Learning class lecture. Bremen University: Psychophysics introduction course; MATLAB tutoring
Generic: Cluster usage (MIT CSAIL BORG cluster (Condor), Brown CCV cluster (SLURM)), Version Control (GIT, Mercurial. SVN), Arduino, RasPi, LaTeX, Office, Image processing (Photoshop, GIMP), 3D modeling and animation (Cinema4D)
Hackathons
MIT Grand Hack 2016: 1st place "Aging in Place" with AlzEYEmers project.
TVNext hackathon 2016: 2nd place with Assistive TV project.
Interests
Video game development: I have been programming, doing graphics design/3D modeling and web development for the multiplayer open source game OpenClonk for many years [git contribs].
Sports: I'm an amateur league badminton player and certified badminton referee.
Recreation: I'm also an enthusiastic hang glider pilot with an unlimited flight license in Germany and experience in mountains as well as flat land flying and towing.