About me

I’m William Thyer, a Senior Data Scientist at Cohere Health. I have 8 years of experience solving difficult problems with data and maching learning. I earned my PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago in 2023. Before that, I interned at Spark Neuro in 2021 and Intuitive Surgical in 2022. Here is my resume, portfolio, Github, Google Scholar, and blog.

My experience

Since 2023, I have worked at Cohere Health as a data scientist. I trained, deployed, and monitored a suite of ML models that have approved hundreds of thousands of insurance prior auth requests. I also engineered data assets that inform executive decision-making and support product development.

From 2018–2023, I worked in the Awh/Vogel Lab using machine learning to understand human memory. I conducted experiments, built open-source analysis tools, and published papers in research journals.

At Spark Neuro, I developed machine learning tools and visualizations to detect and monitor neurological disorders. At Intuitive Surgical, I built ML systems to provide real-time feedback to surgeons during robotic surgery training.

My favorite posts

Calm Hands, help reduce nail-biting using computer vision and AI
Advice for becoming a data scientist as a psychology/neuroscience PhD student
Visualizing and Analyzing Bicycle Infrastructure using OSMnx