Donisha D. Smith

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Baltimore, Maryland

Cognitive neuroscientist and research software engineer. I build reproducible neuroimaging pipelines and open-source Python/R packages for brain imaging and machine learning, with a focus on scalable HPC workflows and rigorous software practices. PhD from Florida International University; currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

selected publications

  1. npj Sci. Learn.
    Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics
    Donisha D. Smith, Jessica E. Bartley, Julio A. Peraza, and 10 more authors
    npj Science of Learning, Aug 2025
    DOI
  2. JOSS
    NeuroCAPs: A Python Package for Performing Co-Activation Patterns Analyses on Resting-State and Task-Based fMRI Data
    Donisha Smith
    Journal of Open Source Software, Aug 2025
    DOI