w.h.d.
平沢ウイリアム
health ai x neuro x bci tech research
ex-founder @ Ocular Diagnostics (venture-backed brain health startup) - worked on ml research for ADHD diagnostics + raised $150K to build custom vr wearables to track ADHD. we were one of the first to successfully use pupil-size movements for early detection of neurological disorders (published in Nature Scientific Reports, ACM, and IEEE).
received 2024 NSF Research Graduate Fellowship (GRFP) ($160K in grants for 3-5 years master’s/phd) for research on multimodal knowledge graph based LLM interpretability.
received awards from Columbia CS department for independent research on distilling medical image vision transformers (Theodore R. Bashkow Award).
currently:
- research on neurostimulation for sensory and emotional modulation.
prior work:
- co-founded and led Coding for Impact (one of the world’s largest student-led international development organizations) from 2018-2021, helping deliver tech to underserved NGOs across the globe.
prior research:
- worked on distillation of medical image foundation models at IBM Research under Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui (created new distillation loss metrics using attention maps in ViTs).
- productionized low-latency ML streaming pipelines at Nokia Bell Labs for forest fire forecasting.
- created new methods to hierarchically analyze bioinformatics codebases using LLMs (patent-pending) at Helix (leading population genomics company).
for fun:
- parallelized gene regulatory network inference algorithms in Haskell using boolean networks.
- open-sourced first stack for SARA (self-adaptive robust attention) based robotic transformers.
publications + code.