Burak Y
Volunteer at Stanford University School of Medicine
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Y is a Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate from UCSB with nine years of multidisciplinary experience spanning EEG research at Stanford, AI-assisted healthcare projects, and entrepreneurship. He combines hands-on lab work investigating neural mechanisms of emotion regulation with practical product and event leadership from founding a jewelry brand and organizing TechDev Academy olympiads. At Stanford and UCSB he contributed to studies linking cognition and emotional support, and his internship work fed into new AI modules addressing cognitive decline. Fluent in English and Turkish with conversational Spanish, he brings cross-cultural communication to collaborative research teams in the Bay Area. Known for a hacker mindset—“H@ck the Pl@net”—he blends curiosity-driven experimentation with rigorous methods to translate neuroscience insights into scalable mental-health solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology at Foothill CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychological and Brain Sciences at UC Santa BarbaraGithub contributions (4)
byueksel/bbackup
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
byueksel/money
Dec 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 3 years 1 month
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