Dan was born and raised in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, a few miles from Tanglewood. According to legend, his first contact with MIT was at the age of 6 when he declared that MIT was the college of his choice. Dan later obtained a Bachelor's degree at MIT in Course 7 (Life Sciences).
While pursuing his doctorate at Johns Hopkins, he cultivated his loves for engineering, theory and music. After graduation, Dan pursued a path involving multiple forays into various types of music composition and performance, modern and Afro-ethnic dance, and software engineering in New York City. A period of introspection and retrospection in the early aughts led Dan back to the MIT campus, where he was surprised to find a job listing in the campus newspaper that appeared to be written specifically to his resume. It turned out to be from the Graybiel Lab, which Dan joined in 2003.
A "mid-life" period of introspection and retrospection led Dan back to the MIT campus, to the Graybiel Lab. When not programming or analyzing electrophysiology data, Dan's interests include dance, playing the djimbe (an African drum), good food, and such theoretical areas as information and thermodynamic entropy and Maxwell's Demon, complexity science (Santa Fe Institute), and brain architecture. He badly misses playing with his Rush Tribute band from the NYC days, Power Windows.
Email: dgibson@mit.edu
While pursuing his doctorate at Johns Hopkins, he cultivated his loves for engineering, theory and music. After graduation, Dan pursued a path involving multiple forays into various types of music composition and performance, modern and Afro-ethnic dance, and software engineering in New York City. A period of introspection and retrospection in the early aughts led Dan back to the MIT campus, where he was surprised to find a job listing in the campus newspaper that appeared to be written specifically to his resume. It turned out to be from the Graybiel Lab, which Dan joined in 2003.
A "mid-life" period of introspection and retrospection led Dan back to the MIT campus, to the Graybiel Lab. When not programming or analyzing electrophysiology data, Dan's interests include dance, playing the djimbe (an African drum), good food, and such theoretical areas as information and thermodynamic entropy and Maxwell's Demon, complexity science (Santa Fe Institute), and brain architecture. He badly misses playing with his Rush Tribute band from the NYC days, Power Windows.
Email: dgibson@mit.edu