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The Team

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Melis Yilmaz Balban, PhD

Founder & CEO

 Neuroscientist. Mom of two. Cat lady.

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Dr. Balban received her PhD from Harvard University and studied human stress responses and interventions as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine. She is the leading author on several peer reviewed articles on the stress response in high profile scientific journals.  

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Outside of work: tennis, skiing, yoga

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Dawna Bagherian, PhD

Chief Scientist

Machine learning practitioner and computational biologist with special expertise in time series data 

and custom deep learning architecture

development for structure learning. 

 

Outside of work: volleyball, canoeing, watching horror movies with my dogs​​​

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Henry D. Zhu

Software

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Software Engineer with expertise in Android development and distributed systems.

Background prior to Neurosmart includes working as a Software Engineer at Meta on observability  (distributed tracing and logging to gain insights         onto the performance, reliability, 

and efficiency of messaging APIs).

 

Outside of work: spending time with my

wife and son, skiing, distance running

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Arozo Azimi

Researcher

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Research assistant with expertise in memory      research and psycho-cognitive testing.

 

Outside of work: gardening, playing guitar,

unwinding with yoga

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Vivian Vu (Yasutake)

Executive Assistant

 â€‹Chief wrangler with 15+ years in

fast paced environments. 

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Outside of work: traveling, finding good eats, + spending QT with those I love​

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