Sean Young
Advisory Board Member at UC Institute for Prediction Technology
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Young is a behavioral scientist, entrepreneur, and split-appointment medical school and informatics professor who builds technologies to predict and change health behaviors using mobile data and big-data analytics. As Executive Director of the UC Institute for Prediction Technology and an advisory board member at the National Academies, he translates academic research into practical interventions, from organizing opioid-focused hackathons to directing crowd-sourced public health solutions. He is the #1 Wall Street Journal–bestselling author of Stick with It and combines training from Stanford (PhD, MS, entrepreneurship) with a rare blend of clinical, data-science, and policy engagement. Based in Los Angeles, he studies problems at the behavioral level—aiming to prevent disease outbreaks and harmful behaviors before they occur—and maintains active collaborations with institutions like Harvard Medical School and MIT CSAIL.
14 years of coding experience
Psychology and Music, Psychology and Music at University of California, BerkeleyMS, Health Services Research/Behavioral Economics, MS, Health Services Research/Behavioral Economics at Stanford University School of MedicineCertificate in Entrepreneurship, Certificate in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBA, Ethnomusicology, Summa Cum Laude with highest honors, BA, Ethnomusicology, Summa Cum Laude with highest honors at University of California, Los AngelesPhD, Psychology PhD, PhD, Psychology PhD at Stanford University
Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (38)
data-science9
lifecycle9
artificial-intelligence9
lightning9
pytorch9
scaling9
python9
machine-learning9
segmentation9
ai9
deep-learning9
cost-management8
infrastructure8
medical-image-computing6
imaging6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
computational-imaging/nlos-dlct
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 5 months
seannz/seannz.github.io
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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