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

Professor at University of Washington

Elizabeth Buffalo

Professor at University of Washington

Anne Churchland

Professor at UCLA

Loren Frank

Professor at UCSF

Satrajit Ghosh

Principal Research Scientist at MIT

Adam Kepecs

Professor at Washington University in St. Louis

Mala Murthy

Professor at Princeton University

Kris Bouchard

Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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

Researcher at Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics & Research Software Engineer at CatalystNeuro

Saskia de Vries

Senior Scientist at Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics

Yaroslav Halchenko

Research Associate Professor at Dartmouth College

Ryan Ly

Scientific Data Engineer at Berkeley Lab

Kushal Bakshi

Neuroscience Data Engineer II at DataJoint

Anna (Szonja) Weigl

Research Software Engineer at CatalystNeuro

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

Eivind Hennestad

Lead developer of MatNWB

NWB Community Liaison

Ben Dichter

Founder and CEO, CatalystNeuro

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.