Shane Waxler

build things. save lives

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About

Hi, I'm Shane. I'm currently living in Madison, WI, training large medical event models at Epic.

I am unusually dedicated to building things that enhance the wellbeing of humanity. Today, my means of achieving this is leading a team of researchers to build Curiosity - a medical event foundation model that simulates patient health trajectories.

I'm originally from San Diego, CA. I am deeply interested in film, modular synthesis, lifting/running, and literature.

Shane Waxler

Public things

  1. Generative Medical Event Models Improve with Scale

    2025 · Research

    S. Waxler, P. Blazek, D. White, D. Sneider, …, R. Shah†

    arXiv:2508.12104 (2025)

    Pretrained a 1B-parameter medical event transformer from scratch; developed 78 healthcare evaluations; and measured pretraining and test-time compute scaling laws for medical event models.

  2. Stanford Computational Medicine talk

    2025 · Speaking

    Presented “Curiosity Deep Dive: Generative Modeling for Improving Patient Outcomes.”

    Watch the talk

  3. BMDS 272: Building Successful Startups in Healthcare

    2025 · Guest lecture

    Guest lecture for Alex Ioannidis's BMDS 272: Healthcare Acceleration: Artificial Intelligence.

    View the course

  4. ML Research Engineering Manager

    Oct 2024 — present · Epic · Curiosity

    Led Curiosity's R&D and managed a 7-engineer research team to advance model capabilities. Led pretraining for models up to 8B parameters and scaling laws work for medical event models. Built a clinician-validated evaluation suite across 78 clinically relevant tasks.

  5. ML Research Engineer

    Sep 2022 — Oct 2024 · Epic · Cosmos

    R&D for clinical decision-support features deployed across hundreds of healthcare organizations, including Stanford, CHOP, Yale, and MetroHealth.

    Cosmos

  6. Teaching Assistant, CSC 665: Artificial Intelligence

    Spring & Fall 2022 · SFSU · Teaching

    Teaching assistant for Prof. Pooyan Fazli's upper-division artificial intelligence course.

    View the course

  7. Student Researcher, People and Robots Laboratory (PeRL)

    One year · SFSU · Research

    Studied user perceptions of 73 robot hands through online and in-person human-robot interaction studies.

  8. B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

    2018 — 2022 · San Francisco State University

    San Francisco State University.