Core Team
Project Leadership
JV
Joshua Vogelstein
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Leads the statistical analysis and algorithm development for connectome mapping.
RB
Randal Burns
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Computer Science, JHU. Leads the database and infrastructure development for OCP.
BF
Benjamin Falk
Research Scientist
Works on data pipeline development and integration of new imaging datasets into the OCP platform.
WG
William Gray Roncal
Research Scientist
Focuses on automated image processing and computer vision algorithms for neural circuit reconstruction.
EP
Eric Perlman
Software Engineer
Leads data engineering and system architecture for the Open Connectome Project data cluster.
DK
Dean Kleissas
Research Engineer
Develops the Block Object Storage Service (bossDB) and cloud-native infrastructure for petascale data.
Collaborating Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard Medical School
MIT
Stanford University
Allen Institute
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Janelia Research Campus
Max Planck Institute