Elon Gaffin-cahn
Senior Research Scientist at Infinite Sky
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolElon Gaffin-cahn is a Staff Research Scientist based in Greater Boston with a decade of experience translating complex human behavior into actionable insights for AI and product teams. He holds a PhD in Psychology from NYU and applies a rare blend of computational cognition, psychophysics, and practical ML to improve model performance and data quality. At BetterUp he progressed from Research Scientist to Staff, driving research that informs coaching products, and previously helped productize social-driving validation at Perceptive Automata. He has led cross-functional teams to curate large behavioral datasets, develop pose-estimation pipelines, and create metrics that halved wasted training data—work that supported pilots with automakers and a pre-seed raise for a startup. Known for rapid prototyping and turning experimental ideas into filed patents and deployed pilots, he excels at bridging academic rigor with product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Neuroscience, magna cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Neuroscience, magna cum laude at Union CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at New York University
Github Skills (16)
r-package4
data-files4
preprocessing2
javascript2
goodies2
python2
representation-learning1
pytorch1
notebook1
high-resolution1
ipython1
deep-learning1
analytics1
pose-estimation1
pose1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
egaffincahn/ticket-to-ride
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 65 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 7 months
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egaffincahn/RetinotopicMapping
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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