Jake Sunshine

Dr. Sunshine is a Research Scientist at Google and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, with appointments in the Schools of Medicine and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His work is centered on remote, passive sensing on smart devices, with a focus on detection of unwitnessed, time-sensitive emergencies such as cardiac arrest. His research has been funded by NIH, NSF, BARDA, private foundations and industry. His research has been published in Nature, Circulation, Science Translational Medicine, Health Affairs and npj Digital Medicine and covered by the Washington Post, STAT, NPR, Scientific American, Wired magazine and others. His essays on health and technology have been published in local and national media, including Slate and the New York Times. Prior to Google he was the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Sound Life Sciences, a Seattle-based health sensing startup acquired by Google in 2022.