William Walden
Research Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Walden is a research scientist specializing in natural language understanding at Johns Hopkins University's Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, bringing nine years of experience bridging industry engineering and academic research. He completed advanced graduate work in NLP at the University of Rochester and transitioned from software engineering at Okta to research roles that include a Microsoft internship applying GPT-3 and Codex to few-shot semantic parsing. William's work spans core NLU problems with a practical bent—translating state-of-the-art language models into usable parsing and understanding systems. Based in Baltimore, he combines rigorous PhD-level methodology with production-minded engineering experience, making him adept at moving ideas from experimental prototypes toward real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) at University of RochesterBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (27)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
uds9
semantics9
natural-language-processing8
organize7
lifetime7
robocup7
nlp6
machine-learning5
python5
pytorch5
data-science4
deep-learning4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wgantt/personal-website
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
reactnextjs
wgantt/nli-mixed-models
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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