Sean K. Martin

Seán K. Martin
County Dublin, Ireland
martins7@tcd.ie

I am a keen mathematician and computer scientist, and a PhD candidate in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.

Experience

PhD Student (Sep 2020 - present)
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

PhD student position in the Department of Neuroscience to study neural data analysis, with a focus on inter-areal interactions in the brain.

Research Assistant (Sep 2018 - Sep 2020)
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

I performed human and animal perception and behaviour research with the neuroscience department and computer science department. This involved developing open-source data analysis tools, writing papers, and programming hardware for experiments. From this work I attended multiple global conferences, presented posters, published papers and chaired a session on rendering at the GRAPP 2019 conference.

Teaching Assistant (Jan 2016 - present)
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

From assisting in teaching multiple mathematics, science, and computer science courses I developed confidence in my work and improved my ability to explain topics in a clear and concise manner.

Analyst (Jun 2016 - Sep 2016)
DEUTSCHE BANK SERVICE CENTRE

My responsibilities included performing extract, transform, and load operations on data, creating visualisations in Python, and documenting Datalab processes. I handled large volumes of company data and learnt valuable data analysis techniques.

Shop Assistant (Jun 2015 - Aug 2015)
TEMPLE BAR TRADING COMPANY

I greatly improved my communication and teamworking skills by interacting with management and customers in this summer position.

Research

[1]Seán K Martin, John P Aggleton, and Shane M O’Mara. Can we conjointly record direct interactions between neurons in vivo in anatomically-connected brain areas? Probabilistic analyses and further implications. Preprint on bioRxiv, 2020. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[2]Bethany E Frost, Matheus Cafalchio,Seán K Martin, Md. Nurul Islam, John P Aggleton, and Shane M O’Mara. Spatial Coding in the Subiculum Requires Anterior Thalamic Inputs. Preprint on bioRxiv, 2020. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[3]Md Nurul Islam, Seán K Martin, John P Aggleton, and Shane M O’Mara. Neurochat: A toolbox to analyse the dynamics of neuronal encoding in freely-behaving rodents in vivo. In Wellcome Open Research, 2019. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[4]Seán K Martin, Seán Bruton, David Ganter, Michael Manzke. Synthesising Light Field Volume Visualisations Using Image Warping in Real-Time. In Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2020. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[5]Katja Zibrek, Sean Martin, and Rachel McDonnell. Is photorealism important for perception of expressive virtual humans in virtual reality? In ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 2019. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[6]Seán Martin, Seán Bruton, David Ganter, and Michael Manzke. Using a depth heuristic for light field volume rendering. In 14th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2019. [ bib | pdf | doi ]
[7]Seán K Martin, Bethany E Frost, John P Aggleton, and Shane M O’Mara. The Effect of Anterior Thalamic Lesions on Bursting in the Subiculum. In Bernstein Computational Neuroscience Conference, 2019. [ bib | pdf | doi ]

Education

Trinity College Dublin (Sep 2017 - Sep 2018)
MASTER OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER SCIENCE

First Class Honours in the Graphics and Vision Technologies strand.

Trinity College Dublin (Sep 2013 - Jun 2017)
BACHELOR OF ARTS (MOD.) - MATHEMATICS

First Class Honours.

Skerries Community College (Sep 2008 - Jun 2013)
LEAVING CERTIFICATE

Obtained 600 points with A1's in Maths, Applied Maths, Physics, and Technology, an A2 in History, and a B1 in English.

Tool Profiencies

  • Python
  • C++
  • OpenGL
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Git
  • LaTeX
  • Bash

Awards

  • Gold Medal - Trinity College Dublin 2017
  • 1st Llyod Exhibition - Trinity College Dublin 2016
  • Hamilton prize - Royal Irish Academy 2016
  • Minchin prize - Trinity College Dublin 2016
  • 2nd Townsend Memorial Prize - Trinity College Dublin 2014
  • Entrance Exhibition - Trinity College Dublin 2013

Interests

I enjoy playing video games, doing development in my free time, and running and playing dungeons and dragons games. I also dabble with the piano and like to go hiking.