Neuroscience × AI × Mountains
I build foundation models for 3D brain imaging and chase big ideas—and big alpine days—in the Pacific Northwest.
Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Outdoors & Mountains
I build foundation models for 3D brain imaging and chase big ideas—and big alpine days—in the Pacific Northwest.
I’m Geoffrey “Geoff” Schau, an AI scientist working at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Lately I’ve been building foundation models for large‑scale 3D brain imaging and the data systems that power them. When I’m off the clock, you’ll find me in the Cascades chasing good snow, long ridgelines, or a quiet alpine lake.
3D microscopy (lightsheet, ExaSPIM/SmartSPIM), neuroanatomy at scale, representation learning for brain tissue.
Self‑supervised vision, masked autoencoders, scalable dataloaders for Zarr/S3, distributed training on multi‑node GPU clusters.
Backcountry skiing, sailing the Salish Sea, and long glacier days on Baker, Rainier, and beyond.
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