Bio:

Lydia Ng joined the Allen Institute in 2004 and has been a technical leader in the full spectrum of product development, delivering innovative and impactful neuroscience data, tools and knowledge to our user community. Ng is also involved in community efforts to standardize and integrate neuroscience data. She is currently the Senior Director of Architecture for Allen Institute for Brain Science products covering ontologies, taxonomies, data access, workflows and user interface. Her research background includes image processing and analysis, image registration, data analysis and mining. Ng received a B.E. in electrical engineering and a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) and a Ph.D. in electronics at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).