William Kearns, Phd Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Affiliate Faculty in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Led the development of an empathetic virtual therapy bot to provide problem solving therapy.• Led the development of a first-of-its-kind AI-augmented telehealth interface to reduce empathy fatigue in providers and assist in providing efficient therapy.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

• Built a multi-tenant vector-based search service using a scalable actor model in Scala interacting with a Neo4j knowledge graph load tested to 1M+ users.• Led development of secure and scalable backend infrastructure and mobile applications for both consumers and enterprise customers from ideation into production.• Delivered HIPAA-compliant data lakes and ETL pipelines on Microsoft Azure for insurance claim adjudication.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Graduate Research Assistant for the Informatics Core of the Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management (CISSM) • Provided technical consulting and informatics support to researchers funded through CISSM grants.• Wrote market analysis reports and documentation on usability testing hardware/software.• Wrote reviews of the research literature for dialog systems and other artificial intelligence methods applied to healthcare.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Built a containerized conversational analytics tool for therapists to review chat logs between care coaches and patient-parent dyads participating in online cognitive behavioral therapy interventions.• Founded a mentorship program for high-performance computing that has matched 100+ undergraduates with graduate student mentors based on related interests to work on independent research projects. • Mentored undergraduate students interested in natural language processing and parallel computing, example projects include applying MMI to generative Medical QA and RTE for retrieval-based QA.

• Advised on technical strategy for developing an enterprise service for team well-being and employee mental health.• Adapted cross-lingual models for emotion detection and sentiment analysis via data augmentation by paraphrasing through a variety of pivot languages• Designed conversational AI infrastructure for GDPR compliance.

• Built a digital scribe for patients and caregivers to record doctor visits, share them with loved ones, and ask questions in natural language about information covered in the transcripts.• Developed a system to semantically index time-stamped transcripts via machine reading to answer health questions and recall the doctor’s recommendations.• Trained a state-of-the-art clinical language understanding system to recognize terms from transcripts and provide information to users via a consumer health knowledge graph.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical And Health Informatics

Computational Linguistics

Bachelor'S Degree, Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, History