Colleen Gillon

I am the lead research software developer for the TorchBrain library, an end-to-end python framework for building deep learning models and training them on neural data at scale.

I completed my PhD with Dr. Blake Richards at the University of Toronto and did my postdoc with Dr. Claudia Clopath at Imperial College London, studying the role of apical dendrites in visual processing and representational learning in the hippocampus. Through my research career, I have become very passionate about increasing the usability of open science tools and, more broadly, facilitating the adoption of open science practices in the field of neuroscience (see our 2025 perspective paper) I believe reliable, user-friendly and well-maintained open science resources are critical to ensuring that the field continues to produce high quality research as our work becomes more complex.