Scott Fleming
Chief Scientist at Sprinter Health
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Fleming is a math-minded chief scientist with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing ML systems that improve patient care, currently leading AI strategy at Sprinter Health. He earned a PhD in Biomedical Data Science and an MS in Computer Science (AI/ML) from Stanford, and has moved research ideas—LLMs, RAG, weak supervision, RL—into production products that generated seven-figure weekly revenue and materially sped clinical workflows. As SmarterDx’s first ML research hire he stood up the research org, led LLM fine-tuning and RAG efforts that quintupled documentation acceptance rates and cut review times by 30%, and recruited a team of health AI PhDs. He blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic deployment experience across startups and top labs (Apple, Verily, Stanford), and is particularly skilled at turning blank pages into repeatable, revenue-driving ML capabilities for healthcare.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Phillips AcademyPh.D., Biomedical Data Science, Ph.D., Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University School of MedicineM.S., Computer Science, Specialization in Artificial Intelligence, M.S., Computer Science, Specialization in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (174)
python10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
causal-inference10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
econometrics9
graphical-models9
statistics9
icu9
self-supervised-learning9
jax9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
som-shahlab/RATE-experiments
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 29 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 4 months
scottfleming/scottfleming.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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