Derek Pisner
Clinical Data Scientist Neuroscientist Software Developer
About Me

I am a scientist tackling problems in computational psychiatry. My work involves building new methods for phenotyping brain networks, leveraging high-powered computing to address issues of reproducibility, and applying ensemble machine learning to the diagnosis and prognosis of psychological disorders. My guilty pleasures are: 1) coding when I should be writing, and vice versa 2) naps and 3) my cat.

Emaildpisner@utexas.edu

Education

PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience
05/2018 - present
University of Texas at Austin

My research includes developing new methods and software for integrating neuroscience, data science, and clinical research. From a basic science perspective, I am also investigating the neural mechanisms of rumination and negative attention bias in depression. In the long-term, I further hopes to explore how multidimensional phenotypes based on person-specific data (e.g. dynamic behavioral, demographic, genetic, and brain network) might be translated into actionable diagnostic and treatment information for clinical intervention.

MA Psychology, Clinical
08/2016 - 05/2018
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy with minor in Mathematics
08/2007 - 05/2011
University of Virginia