Leon Chen
Co-founder And CEO at MD.ai
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Chen is Co-founder and CEO of MD.ai and a software/ML engineer in Seattle with 10 years of experience blending clinical insight and production engineering. Trained as an MD at Harvard and with electrical and nuclear engineering studies at University of Washington and MIT, he uniquely bridges medicine, systems thinking, and frontend/backend development. He is an active open-source contributor — notably refactoring React color pickers in react-color and improving browser Keras demos and WebGL GPU support in keras-js — demonstrating hands-on work from UI components to browser ML. An electronic musician as well, he brings creative problem-solving and product sensibility to building medical AI tools.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of WashingtonNuclear Science and Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
react-components10
react-component10
tensorflow210
javascripts10
tensorflow10
front-end-development10
react10
fasterrcnn9
color-picker9
mask-rcnn9
chrome9
relu9
faster-rcnn9
webgl28
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
transcranial/keras-js
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Run Keras models in the browser, with GPU support using WebGL
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 607 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Leon's primary contribution appears to be updating the example ResNet50 demo by utilizing async/await instead of generators and incorporating changes related to the ResNet50 architecture diagram. The contributions also demonstrate front-end development, including implementation and refactoring for the visualization of the CNN architecture. The user fixed the batch normalization layer for axis normalization.
browserkeras-modelswebgldeep-learninggpu
casesandberg/react-color
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
:art: Color Pickers from Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome, Github, Twitter & more
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Leon primarily focused on updating and refactoring React components within the `react-color` library. They made significant changes to numerous component files, including those related to color pickers like Chrome, Photoshop, and Sketch. Their work involved migrating from deprecated ReactCSS.Component, refactoring to use the reactcss v1 API, and general component structure.
react-componentreactartchromephotoshop
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