Team

Governance Structure

To guide the next phase of growth, and to coordinate the various efforts, NWB has created a governance structure. This will allow NWB to grow in a bottom-up, but coordinated manner. Participation in the project is open to any interested neuroscientist, with overall planning coordinated by an Executive Board (EB) and overall technical development coordinated by a Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

The Executive Board

The executive board consists of seven members, each appointed for a term of 2-3 years. The EB will perform the following duties:

  1. Develop NWB policies, including issue regarding licensing, code repositories, etc
  2. Define the scope of NWB
  3. Organize sustainable funding for NWB
  4. Coordinate a unified and coherent fund-raising strategy
  5. Coordinate communication regarding NWB, including web sites, community outreach, publications
  6. Make strategic decisions
  7. Organize and oversee the activities of the core development team
  8. Provide input for major technical decisions to the core development team

Current Membership of the Executive Board

Bing Brunton
Elizabeth Buffalo
Anne Churchland
Loren Frank
Satrajit Ghost
Adam Kepecs
Mala Murthy
Kris Bouchard

Executive Board Alumni

Floyd Miles

(April 2020 – May 2021, Co-PI 1R24MH116922-01)

The Technical Advisory Board

The technical advisory board currently consists of seven members from the neuroscience and tool developer communities. The TAB has the following high-level goals:

  1. Enhance long-term sustainability of NWB by providing a forum for the community to guide the technical development of NWB
  2. Identify priority technical areas for development
  3. Develop policies for NWB technology development
  4. Help make NWB technical development more sustainable and open to the community

Current Membership of the Technical Advisory Board

Alessio Buccino
Saskia de Vries
Yaroslav Halchenko
Ryan Ly
Lawrence Niu
Kushal Bakshi
Anna (Szonja) Weigl

Core Development Team

PyNWB

Oliver Ruebel

Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab

Ryan Ly

Scientific Data Engineer at Berkeley Lab

Andrew Tritt

Computer Systems Engineer at Berkeley Lab

Matthew Avaylon

Staff Software Engineer at Berkeley Lab

MatNWB

Lawrence Niu

Principal Engineer at MBF Biosciences

NWB Community Liaison

Oliver Ruebel

Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab

Developer Community

NWB values open source software and practices. Many users anddevelopers from our community have contributed to NWB as part of hackthons, bug fixes, new features, andtools. Details about the contributors to our various software are available on our NWB GitHub Organization and the different GitHub repositories: NWB Schema, PyNWB, MatNWB, HDMF among many others.