Will Hedgecock
Research Scientist Adjunct Assistant Professor at Fazecast
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolWill Hedgecock is a research scientist and adjunct assistant professor with 11 years of experience building edge-first sensor and AI systems, and he currently leads R&D at Vanderbilt while running Fazecast as founder and president. He specializes in embedded systems, acoustic source localization, wireless sensor networks, GPS-based high-precision localization, and firmware/software engineering across C, C++, and Java. At V5 Systems he scaled an R&D team and led development of a self-powered, on-device AI gunshot localization product, pairing patent-driven IP strategy with product/sales alignment. His open-source contributions include significant low-level work on Fazecast/jSerialComm, implementing cross-platform serial backends and resolving platform-specific timeouts and interrupts. Will blends academic rigor—he holds a PhD in electrical engineering—with hands-on product engineering, and has a knack for turning signal-processing research into robust, real-world systems. Based in Nashville, he often bridges university research and commercial deployment in the IoT and acoustics domains.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St. Paul's Catholic SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering, 3.981, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering, 3.981 at Vanderbilt UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, 4.0, International Baccalaureate, 4.0 at Pensacola High School
German, Italian
Github Skills (12)
c1710
macos10
linux10
cross-platform10
serial-communication10
ws-api10
c1110
winapi10
multiplatform10
wp-api10
jna9
multithreading8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Fazecast/jSerialComm
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Platform-independent serial port access for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 1 review, 500 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Will's commits indicate a focus on developing platform-independent serial port access for Java. They migrated the project from Google Code hosting, created test cases, and completed testing of Windows functionality. The user implemented core backend features using C, involving the creation of platform-specific implementations for Windows, Linux, and MacOS, along with handling issues such as Windows write-blocking timeouts and a BRK interrupt bug.
platform-independentserialindependentserializationserial-port
hedgecrw/WebAudioAPI
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Javascript Wrapper for the Web Audio API
Contributions:3 PRs, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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