GEORGE VEGA YON portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
  • Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
https://ggvy.cl

Research Summary

George G. Vega Yon, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Utah's School of Medicine. George has over ten years of experience developing scientific software focusing on high-performance computing, data visualization, and social network analysis. Using statistical computing methods, Dr. Vega Yon studies complex social and biological systems, including social networks and phylogenetics.

Education

  • B.A., Business Administration, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
  • M.A., Economics and Public Policy, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
  • M.S., Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Southern California. Project: Essays on Bioinformatics and Social Network Analysis: Statistical and Computational Methods for Complex Systems