Jason Kai, PhD
Jason Kai, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow with the Centers for Integrative Developmental Neuroscience (IDN) and Data Analytics, Innovation, and Rigor (DAIR) at the Child Mind Institute. He completed a bachelor’s degree in electrical and biomedical engineering from McMaster University, where he became interested in neuroimaging research. Dr. Kai then earned a doctorate in medical biophysics from the University of Western Ontario, where his work focused on understanding the short-ranged connectivity in the human brain using diffusion MRI data.
During his time at the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Kai engineered data processing pipelines, leveraged machine learning techniques to study the brain, and assisted with the development and maintenance of infrastructure to support reproducible neuroimaging research. He also helped organize local hackathon events, bringing together researchers of various backgrounds to collaborate on open science projects in neuroimaging.
As a postdoctoral fellow with the IDN and DAIR centers, Dr. Kai focuses on developing tools to study the interplay between the brain’s structure and function, and implementing automated, scalable quality control to assess collected data and help inform decisions along different data processing steps.
Education
- PhD, Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario
- BEng, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University
