The people behind DeepNeuro.AI.
A small group working at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and healthcare — research collaborators and one very competent dog.
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Richard J. Young, Ph.D.
Founder & AI Research Scientist
Senior AI Research Scientist at UnitedHealth Group, Co-Chair of the UHG Enterprise IRB, and Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Information Systems at the UNLV Lee Business School. Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience and M.S. in Data Analytics from UNLV, with 15+ years across neuroscience, healthcare analytics, and large language models. Research on AI safety evaluation, code safety, and clinical AI at deployment scale: CardioEmbed (99.6% cardiac retrieval accuracy), EQUITRIAGE (fairness in LLM emergency triage), and open benchmarks for how foundation models fail. Patent inventor with 80+ open model releases.
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Alice Matthews, Ph.D. RDCS
Cardiac Specialist & AI Researcher
ARDMS-certified cardiac sonographer (RDCS) and Ph.D. neuroscientist (UNLV) who bridges advanced cardiac imaging with AI research. Instructor in cardiovascular sonography at Concorde Career College Portland, with a specialty in pediatric and congenital echocardiography and a long-standing role in patient advocacy. Co-author on CardioEmbed and the LoRA embedding comparison for clinical cardiology text, she leads the clinical-imaging side of DeepNeuro.ai and curates the cardiac sonography study guides in the Library.
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Lucky
Chief Morale Officer
Toy Poodle extraordinaire and official lab supervisor. Ensures optimal research productivity through strategic nap scheduling and enthusiastic tail wags.
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