Lynd Bacon

Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Utah

Biography

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Lynd Bacon is an applied scientist. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, the University of Utah. At Utah he teaches graduate and post-graduate courses in data science, machine learning, statistics, and research methods. He does research about health services delivery, product and service design, and genomic testing. His prior teaching experience includes having taught at The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business, The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Rush University, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Bacon has founded two software companies, and has held senior management and chief research officer positions in venture-funded start-up companies and in global business intelligence enterprises. Bacon has a PhD and an MA in cognitive and physiological experimental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA with specializations in marketing, econometrics, and healthcare management from the Booth School of Business. He completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Rush University in Chicago, where he did neuroscience research on healthy and patient populations.

Companies

  • Adjunct Associate Professor University of Utah - Employment (2018)
  • Faculty, Masters of Science Data Science Degree Program Northwestern University (2012)
  • President Loma Buena Associates (2008)
  • Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor The University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business (2016 — 2018)
  • VP of Analytics, Board of Directors AMA Birmingham (2016 — 2017)
  • Health Systems Specialist Dept. of Veterans Affairs (2011 — 2012)
  • Senior Vice President of Analytics YouGov America, Inc. (2007 — 2008)
  • President and Founder Lynd Bacon & Associates, Ltd. (1990 — 2007)
  • CEO and Founder Sighthound Solutions, Inc. (2005 — 2006)

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