I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at NeuroPoly Lab, as well as a Junior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (https://ismrm.org).
My main research focus is bringing quantitative MRI (qMRI) applications under one umbrella through data standardization, vendor-neutral acquisitions, fully transparent & reproducible workflows and community building. To achieve this, I gained experience in:
- Vendor-neutral pulse sequence development in RTHawk and Pulseq
- Container-mediated and data driven Nextflow pipelines
- Open-source image reconstruction
- Python/MATLAB/C++
I am the lead developer of https://neurolibre.org, an open-source platform for publishing reproducible preprints written in MyST Markdown and Jupyter Book. It is quite an involved project which helped me gain development experience with the following tools:
- Kubernetes on baremetal (to host BinderHub)
- Ruby on Rails (OpenJournals editorial manager)
- OpenStack & OpenNebula
- Terraform
- Flask/Celery/NGINX based full-stack server
- GitHub actions development
- Academic publishing workflows
But I am not your typical introvert developer who is decoupled from the substance of the development. The current state of the publishing industry keeps me up at night. I am firmly against greasing the cogs of the papermills to gain an edge in the careerist game of academic thrones. While everyone imagines this realm to be filled with Tyrion Lannisters, in reality, it's mostly Petyr Baelishes, finding their way to the top. I'd rather be the Hodor, losing my mind holding the door to keep bad science out.
Important
No, that was not a typo, I do have two PhDs. In addition to qMRI, I have a PhD degree in musculoskeletal biomechanics, with a special focus on the assessment of in-vivo mechanical characteristics (e.g., strain in the fiber direction) of human skeletal muscle. Here's a publication in the Journal of Biomechanics.
For more information re publications, talks, awards and all that jazz, you can visit: https://agahkarakuzu.github.io or stalk my Google Scholar profile to judge my number of organic citations and h-index. Rest assured, I didn't game the system to inflate them. And if you don't want to hire me because you think that those numbers are low, well, you're not the employer I want to work with anyway.
My motivation for open science is born from a combination of open-source development (BrainHack, MRathon, OpenMR) and science communication (MRM Highlights, OHBM Blog, ISMRM’s MRPulse). But don't be fooled, I don't use "open-source" as a buzzword to carve out a niche career for myself; I thrive on proving it can solve real technical problems.
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