Mike W
Co-Founder at Hooper
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike W is a founder and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building production AI systems and consumer-facing products from Palo Alto. He co-founded Hooper to bring AI-powered, next-gen sports tech to basketball and beyond, after serving as Chief Scientist at Pointable where he connected enterprise data feeds to LLM workflows. His background blends deep research and applied ML—PhD-level training from Stanford, early research engineering at Facebook on vision, and hands-on roles turning unstructured data into structured insights at Lattice. He also taught a project-driven Data-Centric Deep Learning course, emphasizing practical model repair and deployment in real-world settings. Comfortable moving between research, product and engineering, Mike is known for shipping working systems rather than just papers, and for a scrappy builder mindset reflected in his GitHub ethos: "Building!"
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Computer Science, Visiting Student Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Yale UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (81)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mhw32/persistent-homology
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 354 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
universeassumptionscoldmatterobservable
mhw32/ocular-server
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Hack for (albeit simple) augmented reality for E-commerce
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
realitycommercee-commerceangelhackaugmented
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