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 (34)
soil10
spectra10
spectral10
opus10
pdf9
aws9
python8
tesseract8
ocr7
logos7
backend7
command-line-interface6
amazon-web-services5
openpyxl5
odk5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
qedsoftware/multipage-ocr
Mar 2013 - Jul 2019
(Python) Execute tesseract OCR on a multi-page PDF.
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 5 months
ocrpdfpythontesseract
qedsoftware/seal
Aug 2013 - Jun 2021
Sealing images with logos.
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 years 11 months
logos
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