James Michael Roach

Jim is a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University within the Tadross Lab. Jim's background has been establishing the DANNCE St3DIO platform which utilizes marker less pose estimation via the DANNCE deep neural network. He started by miniaturizing multi-view arenas that are necessary for 3D reconstruction. By creating a deployable arena, with a standardized view the same fine tuned network could be used across arenas, thereby creating a plug and play solution. After standardizing the hardware he then worked in orchestrating a massively parallel pipeline utilizing cloud compute for DANNCE predictions, allowing for 100 hours of video to be predicted in a day. By allowing researchers to initiate recordings via a GUI then automating the processes of 3D pose estimation, he allowed for the processes of acquiring behavioral motion tracking to be accessible across several labs and more importantly Team Calakos

EDUCATION

B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Currently a Doctoral Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience