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Jonathan Deaton

Biography

Jonathan Deaton is a senior software engineer and machine learning researcher at Google X. Deaton completed a Bachelor's in Bioengineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also fulfilled premedical requirements. Deaton was a gymnast for 15 years, competing for Stanford Mens Gymnastics and representing the United States on the Junior National Team at competitions in China, England, and Colombia.

Research

Deaton's research interests include Equivariant Euclidian GNNs for molecular modelling, generative language models in biology, and diffusion/score-based generative modelling. Deaton has published work on metagenomic sequencing, bacteriophage sequences, brain tumour image segmentation, and heat stroke prediction.

Publications

• Underspecification presents challenges for credibility in modern machine learning (2020)
• Addressing the real-world class imbalance problem in dermatology (2020)
• Mini‐Metagenomics and Nucleotide Composition Aid the Identification and Host Association of Novel Bacteriophage Sequences (2019)

Jonathan Deaton

Overview

Jonathan Deaton is a Research Engineer at Google X, where he works on applied ML research in computational biology and AI in computer vision for medicine. He has a background in bioengineering and computer science and is currently pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at Stanford. Deaton's research interests include probabilistic ML, Equivariant Euclidian GNNs for molecular modelling, and generative language models in biology.

Education

Jonathan Deaton has a background in bioengineering and computer science from Stanford University, where he also completed premedical requirements. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at Stanford.

Career

• Google X: Research Engineer, applied ML research in computational biology
• Google Health: Worked on AI in computer vision for medicine
• Stanford Health Care (2014-2015): Helped improve patient experience in a neurology clinic and supported nursing staff
• Strivr: Spent 3 years building XR technologies

Publications

• Underspecification presents challenges for credibility in modern machine learning (Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2020) – co-authored with 37 other researchers, including Alexander D'Amour and Katherine Heller
• Addressing the real-world class imbalance problem in dermatology (Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Health NeurIPS Workshop, 2020) – co-authored with Wei-Hung Weng, Vivek Natarajan, and 2 others
• Mini‐Metagenomics and Nucleotide Composition Aid the Identification and Host Association of Novel Bacteriophage Sequences (Advanced Biosystems, 2019) – co-authored with Feiqiao Brian Yu and Stephen R. Quake

Other Projects

• PhaMers – a phage identification tool that uses supervised learning to classify metagenomic sequences as phage or non-phage
• Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation with CNNs – exploring the application of 3D fully-convolutional deep networks for brain tumor segmentation in MRIs

- Heat Stroke Prediction – development of an inexpensive wearable device that uses machine learning to predict and inform users of heat stroke risk

Jonathan Deaton

Jonathan Deaton is a Research Engineer at Google X and a senior software engineer and machine learning researcher. He has a background in bioengineering and computer science at Stanford, where he also completed premedical requirements. Deaton has worked at Google Health, applying AI and computer vision to medicine, and at Strivr for three years. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at Stanford.

Deaton's research interests include Equivariant Euclidian GNNs for molecular modelling, generative language models in biology, and diffusion/score-based generative modelling. He has published work on addressing the real-world class imbalance problem in dermatology and on identifying and classifying novel bacteriophage sequences.

Publications

• Underspecification presents challenges for credibility in modern machine learning (2020)
• Addressing the real-world class imbalance problem in dermatology (2020)

- Mini‐Metagenomics and Nucleotide Composition Aid the Identification and Host Association of Novel Bacteriophage Sequences (2019)

Jonathan Deaton

Jonathan Deaton is a Research Engineer at Google X, where he works as a senior software engineer and machine learning researcher. Deaton has a background in bioengineering and computer science, with premedical requirements completed at Stanford. He is also a former gymnast, having competed for Stanford Men's Gymnastics and represented the United States on the Junior National Team.

Deaton's research interests include Equivariant Euclidian GNNs for molecular modelling, generative language models in biology, and diffusion/score-based generative modelling. He has published several papers, including:

• "Underspecification presents challenges for credibility in modern machine learning" (Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2020)
• "Addressing the real-world class imbalance problem in dermatology" (Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Health NeurIPS Workshop, 2020)
• "Mini‐Metagenomics and Nucleotide Composition Aid the Identification and Host Association of Novel Bacteriophage Sequences" (Advanced Biosystems, 2019)

Prior to joining Google X, Deaton worked at Strivr for three years, and is now continuing his work in extended reality (XR) technologies at Reality Labs, Meta. He also has experience as a research intern at Cartography Biosciences and as a software engineer at SAP Successfactors.

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