Samy Abdel-ghaffar
Senior Research Scientist at Google (Fitbit)
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamy Abdel-ghaffar is a Senior Research Scientist on Google’s Fitbit R&D team with eight years of post-PhD experience applying cognitive neuroscience and software engineering to real-world health products. He specializes in designing and validating wearable-driven interventions for mental well-being, bridging rigorous academic research from his UC Berkeley PhD with product-focused R&D at Fitbit. Based in Berkeley, he combines deep domain knowledge of cognition and behavior with practical systems and firmware-era engineering skills dating back to early roles in embedded and software design. Known for turning complex behavioral signals into actionable product features, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and shipping mindset to consumer health technology.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaPhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience at UC BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
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Github Skills (46)
regression9
classification-algorithm9
jupyter-book9
binder9
classification8
clustering8
jupyterlab-extension8
jupyter8
jupyterhub8
r7
seaborn7
jupyterlab7
control-flow7
data-import7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
data-8/cogneuro-connector
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:9 PRs, 158 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
cognitive-neuroscienceconnectorneurosciencecognitive
samyag1/StrmAnlyzeR
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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