William Gilpin
Assistant Professor Of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Gilpin is an applied physicist and Assistant Professor at UT Austin who leads a research group combining machine learning, scientific computing, and dynamical-systems theory to tackle problems in time series mining, computational biology, and fluid dynamics. With 11 years of research experience across Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton, he blends pencil-and-paper theory, high-performance C++ simulations, and modern ML pipelines to analyze multi-terabyte datasets and develop custom dimensionality-reduction and forecasting tools. His work spans tabletop experiments to computational models and has been supported by competitive fellowships (NSF, Simons, NDSEG, National Geographic) and featured in major media. He also advises industry as Chief Data Scientist at Medici Therapeutics, translating academic methods into applied data science. Notably, he bridges disciplines by applying chaos and nonlinear dynamics insights to biological time series—a perspective that yields interpretable models where black-box approaches often fail.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Physics, AB, Physics at Princeton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (120)
blast10
anomaly-detection10
python10
feature-extraction10
strange-attractors10
density-estimation10
bank10
pdb10
regularizer10
protein-sequences10
structural-biology10
autoencoder10
pdb-files10
api10
physics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
williamgilpin/cphy
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Class materials for computational physics course
Contributions:246 commits, 67 PRs, 515 pushes in 6 months
computational-physicsphysicspythoncomputational
williamgilpin/howto
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
How to do various tricky computer things
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 104 pushes in 7 years 8 months
miscellaneoustroubleshooting
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