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Ethan Traister

I build software, do research on brains and data, and go backpacking whenever I can. First-year at Dartmouth studying Physics & Computer Science.

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00 About

I like building things that touch real data and real people: an app for my school's dining hall, an AI voice agent that answers scam calls, and a look at whether ship traffic can say something about the oil market.

Before Dartmouth I deferred a year to work full time: business analysis at a traffic-tech startup in Tel Aviv, then research at Stanford's Memory Lab, UCSF, and scam.ai in Berkeley. I love learning something new and then putting it to work.

01 Projects

Foco

2026 → now

An iPhone app that shows Dartmouth students which friends are at the dining hall and what's on the menu. Launching across campus in January.

Code on GitHub ↗

Scam-call voice agent

2026

An AI voice agent that picks up real scam calls, built at scam.ai to study how phone scammers work.

Read the paper ↗

Tankers and the oil market

2026

Can you see the oil market from ship traffic? Tracking oil tankers along the Gulf Coast to find out.

Code on GitHub ↗

02 Research & work

  1. Oct 2026 → now

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Jobst Lab (Neurology)

    Studying how music affects the brain in people with epilepsy.

  2. May → Aug 2026

    scam.ai AI Engineer Intern

    Built the scam-call voice agent and wrote up what we learned.

  3. Jan → Aug 2026

    Stanford University Memory Lab (Psychology)

    Studied how attention shapes memory, using brain recordings and eye tracking.

  4. Jan → Jul 2026

    UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine

    Analyzed immune data for a study on gut bacteria and peanut allergy.

  5. Aug → Dec 2025

    Intelligent Traffic Control, Tel Aviv Business Analyst

    Market research and partner analysis for a traffic-tech startup.

Papers

03 Current challenge

Climbing every 14,000-foot peak in California.

Mount Whitney

14,505 ft · Sierra Nevada

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04 Contact

The best way to reach me is email. I'm always happy to talk about research, building things, or trips.