Jason Yu

Researcher and engineer. Climate, systems, public health.

Work

The Pelion Foundation

501(c)(3) working on equitability in medicine, healthcare, and education.

USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

Worked on digital health access, social determinants, and substance use in emergency medicine populations.

A cross-sectional study of decade-long trends in mobile health access among Latino patients at an urban safety-net hospital

ACEP Annual Meeting, oral presentation. Manuscript under review.

Prevalence of Substance and Alcohol Use Among EMS-Transported Patients: A Cross-Sectional Survey

NAEMSP, poster.

A Cross-Sectional Survey of the Social Determinants of Health of 9-1-1-Transported Emergency Department Patients

NAEMSP. SAEM Western Regional. USC DESCIPHER.

California Institute of Technology, Yuk L. Yung Group

Worked on fire detection and monitoring using brightness-temperature difference and water vapor emission from AIRS. Paper ↗

Also worked on photospectroscopy and data analysis for the Juno mission, NASA A-Train, and atmospheric ultraviolet radiance modeling.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Worked on climate model verification and atmospheric remote sensing.

UC Berkeley, Computational Approaches to Human Learning Research

Built NLP tools using BERT and related models. Full stack development.

Prior Industry

Worked on real-time call infrastructure, caching layers, and backend systems at scale.