charles david williams

about

Hello. I'm Dave Williams. I'm:

• A data and applied scientist in the applied ML group at Microsoft's CSE.
• Interested in biological motion, from the molecular scale up to migration
• An avid consumer and creator of awesome libraries that make answering data-driven questions possible
• A heavy user of AWS and the creator of one of the first AWS clusters at UW back in the heady days of 2007
• Formerly a mathematical biophysicist at the Allen Institute for Cell Science
• Formerly a postdoc at UW, in the eScience institute
• A past member of the Balazinska and Daniel labs at UW
• Previously funded as a "Moore/Sloan and WRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science", a set of fantastic sponsors that make for a word-salad of a title
• Formerly an NSF Mathematical Biology fellow at Harvard's Concord Field Station with Andy Biewener
• A huge fan of stochastic simulation: let randomness do the smoothing for you
• Many other things, surely