Biography

Accomplished operations officer, research scientist, product/program/personnel manager, and client services executive. Experienced in multiple technical fields: data science, oil and gas spectroscopy, web application design, radiation safety, nuclear and medical physics, semiconductor modeling, healthcare encounter data, Google Cloud, and software development. Designed and/or written software in multiple languages/platforms. Primary writer for awarded SBIR/NIH grant. Thrives in multi-discipline climate. Experience working outside US: Taiwan, Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, England, Germany, Ukraine.

Publications

• “Production Evaluation of Automated Reticle Defect Printability Prediction Application,” W. Howard, S. Pomeroy, R. Moses, and T. Thaler, Proceedings of SPIE 6533, (2007).

  “Modeling and Performance Metrics for Longitudinal Chromatic Aberrations, Focus-Drilling, and Z- Noise: Exploring Excimer Laser Pulse-Spectra,” M. Smith, J. Bendik, I. Lalovic, N. Farrar, W. Howard, and C. Sallee, Proceedings of SPIE 6520, (2007).

  “Inspection of Integrated Circuit Databases through Reticle and Wafer Simulation: An Integrated Approach to Design for Manufacturing (DFM),” W. Howard, J. Tirapu Azpiroz, Y. Xiong, C. Mack, G. Verma, W. Volk, H. Lehon, Y. Deng, R. Shi, J. Culp, and S. Mansfield, Proceedings of SPIE 5756, (2005).

  “PRIMADONNA: A System for Automated Defect Disposition of Production Masks Using Wafer Lithography Simulation,” D. Bald, S. Munir, B. Liebermann, W. Howard, and C. Mack, Proceedings of SPIE 4889, (2002).

  “Precision screening for familial hypercholesterolemia: a machine learning study applied to electronic health encounter data.” Kelly D Myers, Joshua W Knowles, MD, David Staszak, PhD, Michael D Shapiro, DO, William Howard, PhD, Mrinal Yadava, MD, David Zuzick, MBA, Latoya Williamson, MS, Nigam H Shah, PhD, Juan M Banda, PhD, Joe Leader, BS, William C Cromwell, MD, Ed Trautman, PhD, Prof Michael F Murray, MD, Seth J Baum, MD, Seth Myers, PhD, Samuel S Gidding, MD, Katherine Wilemon, Prof Daniel J Rader, MD.  The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 1, Issue 8, PE393-E402, DECEMBER 01, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30150-5. 

  “A Nationwide 2010-2012 Analyses of U.S. Healthcare Utilization in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”, van Deen WK1, van Oijen MG, Myers KD, Centeno A, Howard W, Choi JM, Roth BE, McLaughlin EM, Hollander D, Wong-Swanson B, Sack J, Ong MK, Ha CY, Esrailian E, Hommes DW. Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2014 Oct; 20(10) 1747-53.

  “Measurement of the thick target 9Be(p,n) neutron energy spectra,” W. Howard, S. Grimes, T. Massey, S. Al- Quraishi, D. Jacobs, C. Brient and J. Yanch, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 138, (2001).