William Wu
Co-Founder at QED
Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi, Malawi
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Top SchoolWilliam Wu is a technologist and co-founder who builds data systems and machine learning solutions for health and agriculture, leading QED to deploy OCR-driven ScanForm registries across hundreds of rural clinics in East Africa. With a PhD-level research background in signal processing and compressed sensing from Stanford and hands-on telecommunications experience at JPL, he blends deep theory with practical engineering to operate under severe infrastructure constraints. His projects span digitizing paper workflows, portable spectroscopy, land cover mapping, and telemedicine tools, often in partnership with CDC, CIMMYT, BMGF and USAID. William’s career includes developing communication systems for space missions and a demonstrated knack for finding creative, “hacker-spirit” workarounds that scale in low-resource settings. He is based in Lilongwe and brings 13 years of applied experience turning mathematical ideas into production systems that materially improve health and agricultural outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese
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Github Skills (53)
multi-page10
datasets10
aws10
spectral9
pdf8
soil8
amazon8
spectra8
amazon-web-services7
logos7
tesseract7
command-line-interface7
backend7
python7
ocr-python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
qedsoftware/seal
Aug 2013 - Jun 2021
Sealing images with logos.
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 years 11 months
logos
qedsoftware/facebook-hackercup-2013-quals
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 2 months
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