Splash Biography



RUSSELL YANG, Yale first-year interested in data and health



Major: Electrical Engineering and CS

College/Employer: Yale

Year of Graduation: 2025

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hi! My name is Russell Yang, and I'm from Los Altos Hills, California. At Yale, I'm majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science while completing pre-medical requirements.

I'm deeply passionate about education. My experience with teaching spans the educational gamut -- I've taught/coached middle school, high school, and community college students. I've also worked extensively with senior citizens through a technology tutoring project that I founded.



Past Classes

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S4539: AI and Health Justice in Splash Spring 2022 (Apr. 16, 2022)
How can AI be used to improve human health and discovery novel therapies? How might AI-driven medicine perpetuate inequity, and what can we do about it? This class explores the intersection of AI and medicine through a lens of health justice. You'll have the opportunity to play with machine learning models and to compete against a computer in a real-world challenge -- classifying tumors as benign or malignant.


S4482: AI and Medicine in Splash Fall 2021 (Nov. 13, 2021)
How can AI be used to identify diseases, classify cancers, and discover new drugs? This class will explore the intersection of AI and medicine through lenses of computation, ethics, and entrepreneurship. You'll have the opportunity to play with machine learning models and to compete against a computer in a real-world challenge -- classifying tumors as benign or malignant.