Google Summer of Code

Monica Paoletti is a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA. She completed both her BSc and MSc in Mathematics at the University of Turin, where she specialized in probability and statistics, information theory, dynamical systems, algorithms, and statistical physics. Her doctoral research focuses on modeling the behavior of humans and rats in sequential decision-making tasks within the framework of Bayesian Inference. As a Google Summer of Code contributor with INCF and EBRAINS, she is developing methods to transition from simulation-based inference to Bayesian inference for Virtual Brain models, with a particular focus on the Montbriò model.

Renqing Cuomao is a master’s student in Computer Science at EPFL, focusing on multilingual data quality enhancement for large-scale language model pretraining. As a Google Summer of Code contributor with INCF and EBRAINS, she is developing BIDS2EBRAINS, a modular tool that automates the registration of BIDS-compliant neuroimaging datasets into the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, advancing metadata standardization and FAIR data integration in neuroscience. Originally from Tibet, she is passionate about equitable AI, with a focus on metadata curation and language technologies for low-resource communities.

Mathew Birdsall Abrams, PhD, MPH is Director of Science and Training at the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), a global organization dedicated to open, FAIR, and citable neuroscience. Mathew is a neuroscientist with over 25 years of experience in both experimental neuroscience and clinical psychiatry, as well as 12 years of experience in community coordination, community building, and product development in neuroinformatics. Mathew has worked with the infrastructure developers of the world’s large scale brain initiatives (BRAIN Initiative in US, Human Brain Project in Europe, Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, and Brain/MINDS in Japan). He also holds Positions of Trust in many neuroscience societies (e.g. SfN, FUN, FENS, and IBRO). Mathew conducted his doctoral thesis research at Tulane University and Karolinska Institutet, obtained his MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Richmond.