Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics, Robert Zielinski, was selected for a T32 training grant on Interactionist Cognitive Neuroscience with the Brown University Carney Institute for Brain Science . The Interdisciplinary Training in Computational, Cognitive, and Systems Neuroscience (ICoN) is a pre-doctoral program in computational cognitive neuroscience. 

The title of Zielinski’s project is “T32 interdisciplinary training program for Interactionist Cognitive Neuroscience”. Zielinski’s work uses manifold learning to develop statistical representations of geometric shapes that appear in neuroimaging data. The training associated with the grant will allow him to identify more explicit associations between the features of these representations and clinical outcomes. Zielinski will work closely with Ani Eloyan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics and  Kun Meng, ‘18 M.S., ‘22 Ph.D. Prager Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics. The NIMH funded grant provides cross-disciplinary training between computational sciences, human cognitive neuroscience, and systems/meso-scale neuroscience in animal models. 

Zielinski was nominated to the ICoN training program and was selected.