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Senior SW/HW Engineer & Data Science Leader | Expert in Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MATLAB

Profile Summary

Senior Engineer possessing extensive experience as a software developer, with a solid academic and engineering background. Began professional journey at Siemens, followed by 15 years of research engineering at RIKEN, and involvement in startups in Tokyo since 2016. Holds a decade-long track record of studying the human brain, and has later transitioned to big data, machine learning, and deep learning domains. Enjoys tackling challenges and has a keen interest in Python, data, and image analysis. Has consistently secured positions that allow for the pursuit of these interests professionally. Initially a C/C++ developer, transitioned to Python and has been using it ever since. Notable projects include work with Python bytecode (OMPC on GitHub). In addition to his versatile engineering background, he brings over 20 years of experience working directly with scientists across various fields, a collaboration that has significantly honed his expertise in scientific programming. This hands-on experience has not only ingrained a meticulous attention to detail but also equipped him with a comprehensive understanding of data organization, analysis, and experimental software development. He is highly proficient in designing custom software and hardware solutions tailored to unique research requirements. His proficiency extends to the generation of publication-quality figures, a skill cultivated through personal publishing experiences and numerous collaborative efforts. These collaborations have further refined his ability to understand and adapt to the distinct needs of scientific projects, positioning him as a valuable contributor to any research team. His approach to scientific programming combines meticulousness, creativity, and a deep-rooted passion for science, making him an ideal fit for roles that demand both technical proficiency and a comprehensive understanding of scientific research processes. Upon leaving a funded research institute, contributed to startups by assuming diverse roles, eventually co-founding the current employer, 樹研 (itsukiken.com). Initially focused on IoT/Smart Home R&D in collaboration with a Chinese manufacturer, the company pivoted to developing white sanitizing lights due to COVID-19. Actively seeking new opportunities as a startup engineer and research technologist with a broad skill set, encompassing more than just engineering. Enjoys creating projects from scratch and thrives in environments that emphasize continuous learning and experimentation. Possesses experience in various fields and remains hands-on even when managing teams. Stays current with industry developments, recently exploring transformers, diffusers, and NeRFs and Large Language Models. Proficient in PyTorch for deep learning, and adaptable to other frameworks or custom solutions as needed. Capable of working on back-end, full-stack, data science, and hardware projects. Originating from Slovakia and residing in Japan since 2001, holding permanent resident status and living in Wako-shi. Fluent in Slovak/Czech (native), English (native level), and conversational Japanese for daily use. Brings a versatile, adaptive, and dedicated approach to any project, striving to reach the next milestone with passion and commitment.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Python
• ★ Product Prototyping
• ★ Software Development
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Visual Neuroscience
• ☆ Behavioral Neuroscience
• ☆ Computational Neuroscience
• ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Electrical Engineering
• ☆ Electronics Engineering
• ☆ Electronic Circuits
• ☆ Signal Processing
• ☆ Microelectronics
• ☆ Computer Engineering
• ☆ Telecommunications Engineering
• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Computer Hardware
• ☆ Parallel Computing
• ☆ Distributed Computing
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Facial Recognition Technology
• ☆ Information Engineering
• ☆ Network Engineering
• ☆ Internet of Things
• ☆ Software Architecture
• ☆ Robot Programming
• ☆ Computer-Aided Engineering
• ☆ Mechanical Engineering
• ☆ Mechanical Design
• ☆ Remote Sensing
• ☆ Applied Mathematics
• ☆ Mathematical Models
• ☆ Mathematical Optimization
• ☆ Stochastic Processes
• ☆ Biosensors
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ Tensorflow
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ R
• ☆ Scikit-learn
• ☆ Oracle
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Reverse Engineering
• ☆ Device Fabrication
• ☆ PCB Assembly
• ☆ CNC Machining
• ☆ Product Design
• ☆ CAD & 3D Modeling
• ☆ 2D Drawing
• ☆ Desktop Application Development
• ☆ Web Application Development
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Technology Scouting
• ☆ Fact Checking
• ☆ Scientific Animation & Illustration
• ☆ Medical Illustration
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Release Notes
• ☆ White Papers
• ☆ Spec Sheets
• ☆ 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing

Research Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Recipe Development, Concept Development

Work Experience

Chief Engineer

Itsuki Research LLC

April 2019 - Present

Visiting Researcher

RIKEN

May 2017 - Present

Visiting Scientist (periodic visits)

RIKEN Institute for Physical and Chemical Research

January 2017 - January 2023

Chief Engineer

Dynamic Brain Lab LLC

April 2017 - April 2019

Scientific Programmer, Technical Lead

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako (Japan)

October 2001 - April 2017

Scientific Programmer/Technical Lead

RIKEN Center for Brain Science

April 2012 - March 2017

Scientific Programmer

RIKEN Center for Brain Science

October 2001 - March 2012

Education

MSc Telecommunications, BSc Computer Science

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava - Slovakia

September 1995 - June 2001

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Jurica, Peter, Takahara, Yuji, Ota, Toyosaku, Nakanishi, Yoko, Ueda, Shotaro, Struzik, Zbignew R, Nishitomi, Kohei, Iida, Junzo, Kishimoto, Toshifumi, Cichocki, Andrzej, et al.(2023). Exploration of electroencephalogram response to MPH treatment in ADHD patients. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 332. p. 111631. Elsevier

Jurica, Peter, Arata, Yukinobu, Shiga, Itsuki, Ikeda, Yusaku, Kimura, Hiroshi, Kiyono, Ken, Sako, Yasushi(2022). Insulin signaling shapes fractal scaling of C. elegans behavior. Scientific Reports. 12. (1). p. 10481. Nature Publishing Group UK London

Jurica, Peter, Miao, Yao, Struzik, Zbigniew R, Hitomi, Takefumi, Kinoshita, Ayae, Takahara, Yuji, Ogawa, Koichi, Hasegawa, Minoru, Cichocki, Andrzej(2021). Dynamic theta/beta ratio of clinical EEG in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 359. p. 109219. Elsevier

Jurica, Peter, Arata, Yukinobu, Shiga, Itsuki, Ikeda, Yusaku, Kimura, Hiroshi, Kiyono, Ken, Sako, Yasushi(2021). Fractal scaling of C. elegans behavior is shaped by insulin signaling. bioRxiv. p. 2021--12. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jurica, Peter, Ikeda, Yusaku, Kimura, Hiroshi, Takagi, Hiroaki, Struzik, Zbigniew R, Kiyono, Ken, Arata, Yukinobu, Sako, Yasushi(2020). C. elegans episodic swimming is driven by multifractal kinetics. Scientific reports. 10. (1). p. 14775. Nature Publishing Group UK London

Jurica, Peter, Struzik, Zbigniew R, Li, Junhua, Horiuchi, Masahito, Hiroyama, Shuichi, Takahara, Yuji, Nishitomi, Kohei, Ogawa, Koichi, Cichocki, Andrzej(2018). Combining behavior and EEG analysis for exploration of dynamic effects of ADHD treatment in animal models. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 298. p. 24--32. Elsevier

Jurica, Peter, Yokota, Tatsuya, Struzik, Zbigniew R, Horiuchi, Masahito, Hiroyama, Shuichi, Li, Junhua, Takahara, Yuji, Ogawa, Koichi, Nishitomi, Kohei, Hasegawa, Minoru, et al.(2018). Semi-automated biomarker discovery from pharmacodynamic effects on EEG in ADHD rodent models. Scientific reports. 8. (1). p. 1--15. Nature Publishing Group

Jurica, Peter, Alexander, David M, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Zvyagintsev, Mikhail, Mathiak, Klaus, van Leeuwen, Cees(2016). Global neuromagnetic cortical fields have non-zero velocity. PLoS One. 11. (3). p. e0148413. Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA

Jurica, P, Valenzi, S, Struzik, ZR, Cichocki, A(2015). Methods for Transition Toward Computer Assisted Cognitive Examination. Methods of information in medicine. 54. (03). p. 256--261. Schattauer GmbH

Jurica, Peter(2015). Multifractal analysis for all. Frontiers in physiology. 6. p. 27. Frontiers Media SA

Nikolaev, AR, Nakatani, C, Jurica, P, Plomp, G, van Leeuwen, C(2014). Co-registration of EEG and eye movements in vision research. Perception. 43. (1). p. 23--23. SAGE Publications

Jurica, Peter, Valenzi, Stefano, Islam, Tanvir, Cichocki, Andrzej(2014). Individual classification of emotions using EEG. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering. 2014. Scientific Research Publishing

Jurica, Peter, Nikolaev, Andrey, Nakatani, Chie, Plomp, Gijs, van Leeuwen, Cees(2013). Saccade guidance and visual encoding are associated with EEG activity in presaccadic interval. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 6. (3). p. 188--188.

Jurica, Peter, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Nakatani, Chie, Plomp, Gijs, van Leeuwen, Cees(2013). Saccade-related electrical brain activity in anticipation of a memory test. Psychophysiology. 50. p. S23--S24. Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Jurica, Peter, Gepshtein, Sergei, Tyukin, Ivan, van Leeuwen, Cees(2013). Sensory optimization by stochastic tuning. Psychological review. 120. (4). p. 798. American Psychological Association

Jurica, Peter, Alexander, David M, Trengove, Chris, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Gepshtein, Sergei, Zvyagintsev, Mikhail, Mathiak, Klaus, Schulze-Bonhage, Andreas, Ruescher, Johanna, Ball, Tonio, et al.(2013). Traveling waves and trial averaging: the nature of single-trial and averaged brain responses in large-scale cortical signals. Neuroimage. 73. p. 95--112. Academic Press

Jurica, Peter, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Nakatani, Chie, Plomp, Gijs, Van Leeuwen, Cees(2013). Visual encoding and fixation target selection in free viewing: presaccadic brain potentials. Frontiers in systems neuroscience. 7. p. 26. Frontiers Media SA

Jurica, Peter, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Nakatani, Chie, Plomp, Gijs, van Leeuwen, Cees(2011). Eye fixation-related potentials in free viewing identify encoding failures in change detection. Neuroimage. 56. (3). p. 1598--1607. Academic Press

Jurica, P, Gepshtein, S, Tyukin, I, van Leeuwen, Cees(2010). Optimal motion sensitivity from stochastic adjustment of cell tuning. Perception. 39. p. 96--96. Pion Ltd.

Jurica, Peter, Van Leeuwen, Cees(2009). OMPC: an open-source MATLAB®-to-Python compiler. Frontiers in NEUROINFORMATICS. p. 5. Frontiers

Jurica, Peter, Kwok, Hoi Fei, Raffone, Antonino, van Leeuwen, Cees(2007). Robust emergence of small-world structure in networks of spiking neurons. Cognitive neurodynamics. 1. p. 39--51. Springer Netherlands

Kwok, HF, Jurica, P Raffone, Raffone, AA., & van Leeuwen, C.(2007): Robust emergence of small-world structure in networks of spiking neurons. Cognitive Neurodynamics. 1. (1). p. 39--51.

JURICA, Peter, BRINKERS, Martijn, VAN LEEUWEN, CeesComponent-based Framework for Design and Simulation of Neural Networks.

Jurica, Peter, Yang, Shun-nanPredictions on Trajectory and Velocity of Visually Guided Saccades Based on Gravitational Field Model of Occulomotor Movements.

OTHER

Jurica, Peter, Valenzi, Stefano(2021). Biological information measurement device.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Jurica, Peter, Rutkowski, Tomasz M, Shimizu, Kensuke, Kodama, Takumi, Cichocki, Andrzej(2015). Brain--Robot Interfaces Using Spatial Tactile BCI Paradigms: -Symbiotic Brain--Robot Applications. Symbiotic Interaction: 4th International Workshop, Symbiotic 2015, Berlin, Germany, October 7-8, 2015, Proceedings 4. p. 132--137.

Jurica, Peter, Nikolaev, Andrey, Nakatani, Chie, Plomp, Gijs, van Leeuwen, Cees(2014). Eye movement segmentation of EEG activity related to memory encoding. Annual Meeting of Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Date: 2014/06/08-2014/06/12, Location: Hamburg, Germany.

Jurica, Peter, Alexander, David M, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Zvyagintsev, Mikhail, Mathiak, Klaus, van Leeuwen, Cees(2013). The Origin of the Spatial Pattern of Amplitudes in Trial-Averaged MEG. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (III) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics-2011. p. 303--309.

Gepshtein, S, Jurica, P, Tyukin, I, van Leeuwen, Cees, Albright, TD(2010). Optimal sensory adaptation without prior representation of the environment. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.(Nov 2010)[731.7].

Jurica, Peter, Gepshtein, Sergei, Tyukin, Ivan, Prokhorov, Danil, van Leeuwen, Cees(2007). Unsupervised adaptive optimization of motion-sensitive systems guided by measurement uncertainty. 2007 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information. p. 179--184.