Winson Yang
Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWinson Yang is a cognitive neuroscientist and data science enthusiast with nine years of experience translating brain-behavior research into practical tools and clinical interventions. Currently a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School/Mass General, he specializes in modeling flexible mental states in contemplative practices and building computational pipelines that accelerate analysis and usability for non-programmers. He has a strong track record in teaching and community engagement—running popular R and jsPsych workshops and creating web-experiment tutorials—alongside applied roles advising mental health tech. Winson blends rigorous PhD-level neuroscience with hands-on software and data engineering, often reducing learning curves and improving research infrastructure. Based in Boston, he volunteers widely and brings a practitioner’s perspective on mindfulness, wearables, and scalable intervention design.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive neuroscience at Texas Tech UniversityMaster’s Degree, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience: Neuropsychology, Master’s Degree, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience: Neuropsychology at Maastricht University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (39)
experimental-design7
statistical-inference7
ide7
posters7
psychology7
mri7
science6
sbml6
jspsych6
anaconda6
statistics6
language-server-protocol6
python6
experiment5
development-environment5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
winsonfzyang/jsPsychTutorial
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
winsonfzyang/winsonfzyang.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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