Samir Akre-bhide
Clinical Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Akre-bhide is a Clinical Data Scientist and UCLA-trained PhD candidate in Medical Informatics with nine years of experience applying machine learning and AI to digital mental health using smartphone and wearable data. He designs reproducible, scalable models that inform youth safety and real-time mood monitoring, and has led large-scale data projects including a 500+ TB study in collaboration with Apple. As a founder of a medical device startup and advisor/consultant to companies from seed to Series E, he blends product, regulatory, and technical judgment to move ideas toward adoption. He’s known for clear communication, engaging presentations, and clean, well-documented code that bridges clinical teams and product engineering. Notably, he built covidcompare.io—used by WHO—for mortality forecasting, demonstrating an ability to deliver high-impact tools beyond academia. Based in Chicago, he focuses on responsible AI and practical integration of consumer sensing into mental health care.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of California, DavisMonta Vista High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Informatics at University of California, Los Angeles
French, English, Marathi
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics9
user-interface7
frontend7
machine-learning3
grid2
react2
heatmap2
grid-layout1
layout1
segmentation1
react-component1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akre96/akre96.github.io
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Samir Akre's Personal Website
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
reactnextjs
akre96/cdc_overdose
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Code for analysis and results generated in the paper "COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January-July 2020" Published in AJPH 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year
publisheddrugcrisismonths
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