W Williams
Senior User Experience Researcher at Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolW Williams is a Senior User Experience Researcher and data-driven social/emotional behavior specialist with a PhD in Psychology from Stanford and over a decade of research experience applied to product teams. He has translated academic rigor into impact at scale—shaping growth and recommendation strategies at Instagram by surfacing novel personalization signals and redesigning new-user flows, and currently leads UX research at Vanguard’s in-house creative agency. His work blends surveys, experiments, computational modeling, and biometrics to connect emotion, attention, and behavior, producing peer-reviewed publications, industry white papers, and funded programs. Colleagues know him for rapidly synthesizing large bodies of evidence (50+ studies) into actionable priorities and for training teams to adopt advanced modeling and measurement approaches. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and product-focused pragmatism, with a track record of turning theory into measurable product outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (2)
wcwill/InterpersonalRegulationQuestionnaire
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:52 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
wcwill/FaceMasksEmotion
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:169 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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