William Pang

nei⁵ hou²! My name is Will, and I'm a machine learning data scientist in healthcare who's passionate about statistics + building things from scratch.

Voice AI agent

Winner of the People's Choice Award at 2024 Out of Pocket Hackathon to check pharmacy stocks

Protein Interaction React App

Web tool to visualize protein-protein interactions

Fairness in Machine Learning

Graduate school thesis examining strategies to mitgate bias in the context of predicting use of restraint among psychiatric patients

K-Means

Dynamic visualization of an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to partition data into K number of clusters

Causal Inference

Interactive notebook illustrating the basic concepts of colliders and confounders, two core concepts in Causal Inference

Hypothesis Testing

Interactive Visualization illustrating the basics of hypothesis testing for sample means (normal distribution)

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While I do not actively write anymore, below are a collection of essays that I'm particularly proud of:

"My Other Mother" (The Walrus Magazine): A personal essay reflecting being raised by my nanny in Hong Kong, and the sacrifices she made
"The Common High-School Tool That is Banned in College" (The Atlantic): An essay exploring why calculators are heavily encouraged in high schools, but generally banned in colleges
"The Season to be Stressful" (The New York Times): An essay exploring mental health in college
"Hasty science in the battle against COVID-19 runs the risk of eroding public trust" (The Toronto Star): An essay breaking down the pitfalls of communicating science too quickly