Hi 👋 I'm William Davis! I'm a computational scientist working at the intersection of Bayesian inference and geospatial, geophysical, and geological modeling. My work spans probabilistic methods for inverse problems, scalable statistical algorithms, and interactive data visualization tools.
- Senior Scientist, Tech, in Maps at Uber
- Prev: Senior Computational Scientist at Terra AI
- PhD in Geophysics, UC Berkeley
- Former John W. Miles Fellow in Computational Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Former Researcher at Relational AI
| 🧪 Project Repo | ✍️ Writeup | 📊 Visualization |
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Geo-LM
Geologic models from Llama 4 language model + GemPy |
Featured in: Official Meta AI Blog! |  |
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GP-cubed
The Gaussian Processes for GeoPhysics and Geology Playground (GP³) |
Blog Post Series, starting with: Hacking Non-Stationary Gaussian Processes |  |
| Posterior Sampling Secret Project... | Coming soon...! |  |
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mConvShellTex
Data Visualization for Dynamic & Global Spatial Data |
Blog Post: Visualizing Deep Flows in the Earth |  |
| Knowledge graphs for seismic data and metadata |
Paper in Applied Computing and Geosciences
Blog Post: Knowledge Graphs for Seismic Data and Metadata |
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OnlineMoments.jl
O(1) calculation of conditional moments from data streams |
Paper in Physical Review E
Blog Post: Stochastic Processes and Big Data Python port/rewrite |
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- Programming: Python, Julia, MATLAB
- Libraries: PyTorch, GPyTorch, ReadVTK.jl (contributor)
- Scientific Computing: HPC, PDE solvers, SDE methods, MCMC
- Data Visualization: Plotly, Makie.jl, Matplotlib, custom 3D rendering methods
- 🏅 Award – Winner of the John W. Miles Fellowship in computational geophysics @ Scripps.
- 🏅 Award – Winner of the Matthew's prize in geophysics @ UCL.
- 🏅 Honorable Mention – Acerola Shell Texturing Graphics Competition (for
mConvShellTex, a 3D mantle convection visualization package) - 🎙️ Invited Lecture – Derivatives for Scientific Computing @ Scripps SIO112: repo
- 🎙️ Invited Lecture – Inversion Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations @ Scripps SIO230: repo
- 🎙️ Invited Lecture – Computational Methods in Geosciences @ CIDER 2022: repo
🚀 Let's Connect!
Feel free to explore my repositories or reach out for collaboration.
🔗 Website: https://posgeo.wordpress.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-davis-a5990522b