Carpenter bees and magnolia leaves haunt my landscaping dreams.

A working hypothesis: academic spinouts targeting high social-good regulated spaces with medium TAM (~$100M) have a high success rate. Intuition: regulation decreases competition and smaller TAM increases investor & founder risk, which can be managed by academic research results.

The science-to-practice gap is (often) due to researchers ignoring economic constraints of the solution space. Too much use-inspired fundamental science is done in an application economics vacuum. Worse is when contributions within economic constraints are labeled "incremental".

Are you working in explainable ML/AI for hypothesis generation in life sciences? Ideally, you’re working within biotech, pharma, a startup, or a lab collaborating around life science discovery tasks. I have an ask for a NeurIPS talk but I’d love to invite others instead. Thanks!

VasowatchAI is released (jamesweimer.net/VasowatchAI)!!! Model: predicts postpartum hemorrhage before delivery from maternal heart beats; 4x better than SOTA; and only 73 parameters because we spent 1.5 years studying physiology before model training. Next step: regulatory pre-sub!

Want to be a CS researcher and also maximize the likelihood your work has real-world impact in medicine? Apply to join my phd research group at Vanderbilt Computer Science -- We measure impact not only by "likes" (i.e., citations) on Google scholar, but more importantly by lives saved.

James Weimer, assistant professor of computer science and noted medical-device entrepreneur, has received a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve the safety and efficacy of systems that use advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2024/weim…

Congratulations to Profs. Kevin Leach and James Weimer for their exceptional research in software security and medical devices, which has secured them the prestigious $2 million ARPA-H contract! engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2024/05/21/van…