Frederick Shic, PhD

Dr. Frederick Shic is a Professor of Pediatrics at UW and Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He currently leads Seattle Children’s Innovative Technologies Laboratory which focuses on the exploration of new technologies and methodologies for enriching the lives of children with ASD and their families. His work includes experimental and biomarker research focused on social visual attention in ASD as well as the application and development of technological and computational methods (including apps, video games, virtual reality, computer vision, machine learning, wearables, and robots) for educational and interventional purposes. Dr. Shic received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale, and Postdoctoral Training as a NIMH T32 Fellow in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. Previously, Dr. Shic was a video game programmer for Sony Interactive Studies, a magnetic resonance spectroscopy researcher at Huntington Medical Research Institutes, and faculty at the Yale Child Study Center.