Summary
Gabe Lafond is a data scientist at the Mayo Clinic with 22 years of engineering and programming experience and a BS in Physics from UW–Madison. He blends hands-on research in cancer imaging and neural-network training with practical systems engineering—having built scientific instruments for international physics experiments, award-winning robots, and high-throughput AI web services. As a founder and technical lead he designed scalable inference architectures on AWS and led teams building experimental deep-learning mobile apps. He is also an experienced tutor, particularly effective with neuro-atypical adults and gifted children on the autism spectrum, and pursues personal projects in cryptography and file compression on his GitHub. Driven by curiosity, he repeatedly moves between rigorous research and production-grade systems to turn complex problems into usable, teachable solutions.
22 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison