Oliver Walk
Assistant Professor at University of Washington - School of Medicine
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Walk is an Assistant Professor and Biomedical Informatics researcher with a decade of experience applying machine learning to clinical and genomic data. Trained at Stanford and Columbia (PhD), he has driven projects ranging from ICD-9 clinical note annotation and drug synergy prediction to EHR mining with a focus on improving outcomes for underrepresented minorities. His work blends rigorous ML methods (XGBoost, dimensionality reduction, bandits) with practical data engineering experience from internships and research roles across academia and industry. Based in New York and now faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine, he translates complex health data into actionable insights for patients and clinicians. Colleagues note his willingness to learn new stacks quickly and his unusual combination of plant biology, genomics, and clinical NLP experience that informs a systems-minded approach to biomedical problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and SciencesMaster’s Degree Biomedical Informatics, Master’s Degree Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University School of MedicineBachelor of Science (B.S.) Math and Computational Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Math and Computational Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (47)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
jax9
sequence8
seq2seq8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
crowegian/AMR_ML
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:92 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years
crowegian/medical_sentence_tokenizer
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
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