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Data Science Specialization

As part of my graduate training, I completed a 5-course Data Science Specialization in Educational Leadership focused on data visualization, functional programming, and machine learning within a tidyverse framework.


Certification

I am an RStudio Certified Instructor in the tidyverse.


Programming Skills

R & R Markdown
Git & Github
Bash
MATLAB
HTML/CSS


Philosophy

I am a strong advocate for open science and open-source data science software. I particularly enjoy helping others learn data science skills, and I value kindness and inclusivity above all else in my teaching.


More info

See full CV at bcullen.rbind.io/cv for more complete list of positions and peer-reviewed publications.


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Brendan Cullen

I am a NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon and a Data Science Educator at RStudio, PBC. My research takes a translational (neuro)science approach toward predictive modeling of health behaviors. I teach R and R Markdown to empower others to conduct rigorous and reproducible data science.

Education

MS, Psychology

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

2019 - 2017

BA, Neuroscience

Middlebury College

Middlebury, VT

2015 - 2011

Selected Positions

Data Science Educator

RStudio, PBC

Remote

2021 - 2020

  • Developed interactive educational materials related to using R for data science.

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab

University of Oregon

2021 - 2018

  • Co-designed interventions for large-scaled study comparing behavioral response and cognitive reappraisal interventions for devaluing unhealthy food.
  • Created and maintained automated workflow for daily backup of fMRI data via a high performance computing cluster.

Lab Instructor

PSY 611: Data Analysis I, PSY 612: Data Analysis II,
PSY 302: Statistical Methods in Psychology

University of Oregon

2020 - 2019

  • Designed and taught lab sections for undergraduate and graduate-level statistics classes in R and jamovi (see materials here).

Research Assistant

Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab &
Embodied Neuroscience Lab

Brown University

2017 - 2015

  • Led independent research projects exploring outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for depression.
  • Designed custom software in MATLAB to implement novel EEG/EMG paradigm for measuring neural correlates of tactile acuity and precision grip strength.

Selected Workshops Taught

UO Psych R Bootcamp

Department of Psychology

University of Oregon

2020

  • 3-day bootcamp covering basics of R, R Markdown and transforming and visualizing data with the tidyverse.

Using R more “wisely”: Column-wise & row-wise operations with dplyr

R Ladies Algiers

Remote

2020

  • Workshop for R-Ladies Algiers on column-wise and row-wise operations with dplyr for more efficient data wrangling and summarizing.

Selected Service

Co-organizer

Cascadia R Conf 2020

Eugene, OR

2020

  • Updated website, designed new hex sticker, secured additional sponsors