Will Welch
Research Scientist, Natural Language Processing
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Welch is a research scientist and engineer with a PhD in computer science and 13+ years building production-grade ML systems across speech, vision, avatar creation, and timeseries analytics. He has led core AI efforts at Roblox—shipping features like audio-driven lip-sync, auto-rigging, phototo-3D avatars, and realtime toxic speech detection—and earlier delivered novel facial animation and bobblehead-from-selfie systems at Loom.ai. His background spans computational drug design, 3D shape optimization, and distributed analytics, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering across Python, C++, and large-scale data stacks. Based in San Francisco and now focused on NLP research at MBZUAI, he pairs deep modeling expertise with hands-on system design for real-time, user-facing applications. An understated throughline in his career is translating complex physical and biological modeling techniques into scalable product features that run in real time.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (104)
python10
npm-package10
mesh10
statistics10
validation10
dates10
music10
3d-reconstruction10
data-science10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
estimate10
parse10
numeric10
validate10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
welch/tdigest
May 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 7 years
streaming-datajavascriptquantilestreamingapproximation
welch/sportsball
Jan 2016 - Jul 2019
Are the Giants playing today?
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 6 months
giantstodayplaying
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