CV
Curriculum vitae, research experience, and academic activities.
Contact Information
| Name | Joshua Faskowitz |
| faskowitzji@nih.gov |
Experience
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2022 - Bethesda, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Section on Functional Imaging Methods
National Institute of Mental Health
PI: Dr. Peter Bandettini
- Develop and apply methods for characterizing fMRI correlation structure across space and time.
- Study how preprocessing, physiology, and signal interpretation shape inferences about functional brain organization.
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2021 - 2022 Bloomington, IN
Postdoctoral Researcher
IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
PIs: Dr. Olaf Sporns and Dr. Richard Betzel
- Extended edge-centric and community-based network models for studies of human brain organization.
- Supported collaborative neuroimaging and network science projects through analysis, mentoring, and shared computational workflows.
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2016 - 2021 Bloomington, IN
Graduate Student
IU Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
PI: Dr. Olaf Sporns
- Investigated mesoscale organization, edge-centric representations, and time-varying structure in structural and functional brain networks.
- Collaborated across labs on methods, data sharing, and reproducible computational analyses in network neuroscience.
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2014 - 2016 Los Angeles, CA
Project Assistant
USC Imaging Genetics Center
PI: Dr. Paul Thompson; under supervision of Dr. Neda Jahanshad
- Processed MRI data into analysis-ready neuroimages by designing reproducible workflows.
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2012 - 2014 Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate Research Assistant
USC Emotion and Cognition Lab
PI: Dr. Mara Mather; under supervision of Dr. Allison Ponzio
- Administered experiments over five semesters and one summer, totaling more than 800 lab hours.
Education
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2016 - 2021 Bloomington, IN
PhD
Indiana University Bloomington
Neuroscience and Psychology
- Advisor: Dr. Olaf Sporns
- Committee: Dr. Olaf Sporns, Dr. Aina Puce, Dr. Amanda Mejia, and Dr. Richard Betzel
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2010 - 2014 Los Angeles, CA
BA
University of Southern California
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Research Areas
Focus: Network neuroscience; network science algorithms and applications; community detection; edge-centric modeling; fMRI analysis and interpretation; time-varying connectivity
Honors and Awards
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2023 Departmental award for an outstanding recent PhD graduate.
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2021 One of four awardees selected from regional neuroscience programs at Indiana University, IUPUI, Purdue, and Notre Dame.
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2021 Departmental award for an outstanding advanced graduate student, shared with another student.
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2020 Fellowship support totaling $20,000.
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2016, 2019 Travel award of approximately $300.
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2019 Travel award of $800.
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2016 NSF GRFP support at $34,000 per year for three years.
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2016 Fellowship award of $4,000.
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2010 Full-tuition scholarship awarded for academics, leadership, and community service.
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2014 Award for academic and leadership excellence; one of 112 undergraduate awardees.
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2014 Recognition for excelling in widely separated fields of study and for conducting scholarly research.
Invited Talks
Network Outcomes, Uses, and Null Models: Spring 2022; Practical Applications of Network Neuroscience Workshop; co-organized with Dr. Jenya Chumin
Brain Networks: Close to the Edge: Spring 2022; Washington University in St. Louis, Neuroimaging in Health and Disease Seminar Series
Brain Networks: Close to the Edge: Spring 2022; Dr. Lucina Uddin Lab Meeting
fMRI Preprocessing Workshop: Summer 2022; Indiana University; three-day workshop covering workflows for processing functional neuroimaging data on IU high-performance computing resources
Publicly Available Neuroimaging Databases: Spring 2020; CUNY 2020 Workshop on Remote Data Collection
Teaching
The Consciousness Network: Summer 2023 and Summer 2024; NIH summer journal club; co-organized with Dr. Sharif Kronemer
P303: Health Psychology: Spring 2019; Indiana University; teaching assistant
P211: Methods of Experimental Psychology: Fall 2018; Indiana University; instructor of record
Workshops and Hackathons
NIMH Grant Writing Workshop: 2024 and 2025; National Institute of Mental Health; full-day overview of grantsmanship
Brainhack-Networks: May 2019; University of Vermont; pre-NetSci 2019 workshop
Brainhack Global at IU: Spring 2018; Indiana University
5th Indiana Neuroimaging Symposium and Hackathon: Fall 2017; Purdue University
Neurohackweek: Fall 2017; University of Washington eScience Institute
4th Indiana Neuroimaging Symposium and Hackathon: Fall 2016; Indiana University
OHBM Hackathon: June 2015; Honolulu, USA; pre-OHBM 2015 workshop
Open Science
Multi Atlas Transfer Tools: Fit parcellations using FreeSurfer and distributed as a Brainlife.io application; run more than 19,000 times as a Brainlife.io app
fMRI-2-Mat Tools: Tools for nuisance regression and matrix-based downstream analysis of fMRI data
Lifespan structural connectivity matrices from Faskowitz (2018): Shared dataset released for downstream reuse
Brain networks across the web: Curated collection of openly available brain-network datasets
Skills
Coding and scripting (Advanced): MATLAB, Bash, Awk, Grep, Sed, Python, R, LaTeX
Computational tools (Advanced): GitHub, HPC environments, Docker, Singularity, Unix
Neuroimaging packages (Advanced): FSL, FreeSurfer, ANTs, Dipy, fMRIPrep, MRtrix, AFNI
Professional Service
Journal peer review: Aperture Neuro; Brain Imaging and Behavior; Brain Structure and Function; Biological Psychiatry; Cerebral Cortex; Communications Biology; Human Brain Mapping; Nature Communications; Network Science; Network Neuroscience; NeuroImage; Scientific Data; Scientific Reports; The Journal of Neuroscience; Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Professional Affiliations
- Network Science Society
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping
- Society for Neuroscience
Scholarly Contributions
Publications: For a list of articles, visit my Google Scholar or the publications page.