Wesley Tansey
Assistant Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Tansey is an Assistant Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering with 15 years of experience applying machine learning and statistics to health and medicine. He combines a PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin with postdoctoral work at Columbia to drive projects in cancer genomics, dose-response prediction, and precision medicine. His background spans academia and industry—ranging from fMRI analysis at Stanford and nutrition-focused modeling at MyFitnessPal to ML research internships at Google—so he brings both theoretical depth and practical product sense. Wesley has a track record of developing scalable inference methods, Bayesian nonparametrics, and recommender systems, and he often translates complex probabilistic ideas into clinically relevant tools. Based in Austin, he is passionate about leveraging data science to measurably improve patient outcomes and uncover non-obvious patterns in health data.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
python10
deep-learning10
tac10
autoencoder10
scaffold10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
ml9
markov9
neural-network9
deep-neural-networks9
matrix-factorization9
factorization9
planning9
data-science9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tansey/js_poker
Nov 2012 - May 2020
A simple, minimalist scaffold for a poker web app frontend
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 7 years 6 months
scaffoldreactminimalistfrontendfrontend-app
tansey/cv
Jan 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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