Jon Young

Staff Scientist

Jon is a multidisciplinary scientist with research experience and training in medicine (MD), anatomic and clinical pathology (residency), intelligent systems (PhD), deep learning, molecular biology, and neuroscience. He aspires to increase maximal healthspan through computation-guided engineering of novel therapeutics. During his PhD, Jon explored the latent space of deep autoencoders and developed a deep neural network to model latent causal relationships representing cellular signaling pathways.

Jon enjoys searching for the ideas and technologies that have the most potential to create radical positive impact in the next 50 years. He also enjoys learning and thinking about how to best nurture revolutionary research in biology, medicine, and artificial intelligence. Given his name, many believe that working in longevity was inevitable.