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 Papers
Recent Papers
(2025). Can We Validate Counterfactual Estimations in the Presence of General Network Interference?.
(2024). Aligning Model Properties via Conformal Risk Control. NeurIPS 2024.
(2024). Higher-Order Causal Message Passing for Experimentation with Complex Interference. NeurIPS 2024.