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 graphs for healthcare applications and LLM interpretability.
received awards from Columbia CS department for independent research on distilling medical image vision transformers (Theodore R. Bashkow Award).
currently:
- applied ai @ AWS - building agentic workflows to automate incident prevention for thousands of devs.
- 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).
prior 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.