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Pat Gunn joined the foundation in 2017 as a member of the Scientific Computing Core, initially focused on neuroscience projects. Prior to coming here, he worked at Dropbox, MongoDB and Spotflux. Before that, he spent a decade as a member of the research staff at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he successively worked in high-dimensional clustering, neuroscience and clustered operating systems research groups.