About me

I’m an analytics engineer (and formerly a senior neuroscientist) at Beacon Biosignals. We’re using cutting edge analysis techniques and high-performance computing to do cool things for neurology.

Previously, I worked on developing quantitative perspectives in a field where the methods have long been very high resolution but the theory remains very qualitative (cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics). My main tools are electroencephalography (EEG), especially event-related potentials (ERP), combined with modern statistical, computational and signal processing methods (e.g. hierarchical regression models, independent component analysis). Although these methods are readily applicable to most areas of cognitive science, I tended to focus on language.

If you want to contact me, then well, you can reach me at phillipalday.com (that’s an email address if you let “me” do double duty).

Education

2015
Dr.phil. (PhD-equivalent) summa cum laude Linguistics, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2010
MA Linguistics of German, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2008
BS Mathematics Honors, University of Notre Dame du Lac
BA German Language and Literature with Honors, University of Notre Dame du Lac

Computer skills

Pretty good
Julia, Python (including NumPy), R
Decent and at times good
C, Java, Bash, regex and all the usual Unix tools
Can modify, but not really proficient
modern HTML, JavaScript, Perl, C++ (beyond “C with classes and iostream”)
Working on it
Scheme, Scala
Kill it, kill it with fire 🔥
MATLAB

Online presence

ORCID
0000-0002-9984-5745
Google Scholar
Phillip M. Alday
Open science
FigShare
OSF
RPubs
Code hosting
GitLab
GitHub
Bitbucket
StackExchange
profile for Livius on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

I’m nominally also on the JuliaLang Slack + Zulip, but I don’t regularly look at the relevant apps….

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