William Overman
William Overman

PhD Student

Stanford University
Graduate School of Business

About Me

Hi, I’m a PhD student at Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Operations, Information, and Technology group. My research interests mainly fall between machine learning and experimentation, with a focus on AI alignment, network interference in experiments, and reinforcement learning. I have interned at Uber, where I applied my research in RL and experimentation to large-scale problems, succesfully running XPs and guiding XP design.

I completed my undergraduate studies at Caltech, double majoring in mathematics and computer science, with a focus on combinatorics and complexity theory. After graduating in Spring 2020, I spent most of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Basic Science. During this time, I also obtained a master’s degree in computer science from UC Irvine, focusing on research in multi-agent reinforcement learning.

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Interests
  • AI Alignment
  • Experimentation
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Healthcare
Education
  • PhD Operations, Information, and Technology

    Stanford University

  • MS Computer Science

    University of California, Irvine

  • BSc Mathematics and Computer Science (double major)

    California Institute of Technology

Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2024). Aligning Model Properties via Conformal Risk Control. NeurIPS 2024.
(2024). Higher-Order Causal Message Passing for Experimentation with Complex Interference. NeurIPS 2024.
(2024). Beating Price of Anarchy and Gradient Descent without Regret in Potential Games. ICLR 2024.