Erkin Otles
Resident Physician at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolErkin Otles is a physician-engineer with 12 years of experience building and deploying clinical AI and operations research tools that translate directly into improved patient care and health system performance. Currently a resident physician at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Clinical AI Strategy Advisor at Fourier Health, he bridges bedside medicine with hands-on ML model development and Epic integration experience. His work at University of Michigan and prior roles (including AI Practice Lead and Healthcare Data Science Lead) focused on real-time predictive systems—using deep learning and NLP—to forecast outcomes like return-to-work and personalize patient trajectories in Epic Cloud. He combines formal training in MD, industrial and systems engineering, and machine learning with practical product and implementation experience from Epic and health systems, enabling rapid translation of models into clinical workflows. Notably, he has led both curriculum and practice-level changes (from discrete-event simulation teaching to statewide quality analytics), reflecting a rare mix of teaching, technical leadership, and operational impact. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he favors human-centered AI that prioritizes clinician workflows and measurable clinical outcomes over black-box novelty.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Medicine & Industrial and Operations Engineering, Doctor of Medicine (MD) Medicine & Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of MichiganMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Industrial Engineering (Decision Science Operations Research) & Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Industrial Engineering (Decision Science Operations Research) & Computer Science (Machine Learning) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Turkish, GermanProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eotles/otles_notes
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:409 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
eotles/TemporalTransformer
May 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 5 months
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