Hi 👋 I'm William Davis! I'm a computational scientist working at the intersection of Bayesian inference and geophysical & geological modeling. My work spans probabilistic methods for inverse problems, scalable statistical algorithms, and interactive data visualization tools.
- 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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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 |
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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