Frederick Shic, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Autism researcher, Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development
Dr. Frederick Shic is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Washington and an autism researcher at Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development focused. Dr. Shic received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, 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 an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center.
Dr. Shic currently leads Seattle Children’s Innovative Technologies Laboratory which focuses on the exploration of new technologies and methodologies for enriching both our understanding of ASD and the lives of children with ASD. His current research interests include using eye tracking to study visual social attention in ASD, functional near infrared spectroscopy to investigate brain mechanism, computational modeling to operationalize and synthesize working knowledge regarding typical and atypical development, and the development of specialized software (apps, video games, virtual reality, and informatics resources) and hardware applications (robots, wearables, and specialized monitoring tools) for educational and interventional purposes.