Billy Carson
Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale Child Study Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBilly Carson is a postdoctoral fellow and biomedical engineer with nine years of experience applying interpretable machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision to neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD. He developed open-source tools (e.g., AugmentedPCA) and novel adversarial and NMF-based latent factor models in PyTorch to discover treatment-responsive neural connectomes and multimodal biomarkers from neural activity, 3D imaging, and synchronized eye-tracking. A published first-author researcher and experienced instructor, he has delivered lectures and mentored teams through Duke’s Data+ program, translating complex ML methods into teachable, usable workflows. Billy’s background in neural engineering—electrophysiology, neurostimulation, and computational neuroscience—lets him bridge wet-lab insight with principled ML, and he has a track record of extracting high-accuracy results from limited biomedical datasets using transfer learning and interpretable attention mechanisms.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (6)
graph-convolutional-networks7
graph-neural-network7
pytorch6
geometric-deep-learning6
deep-learning6
preprocessing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wecarsoniv/augmented-pca
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:98 commits, 74 pushes in 7 months
wecarsoniv/beta-divergence-metrics
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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