Shane Waxler

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  1. 2025 · Research

    Generative Medical Event Models Improve with Scale

    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. 2025 · Speaking

    Stanford Computational Medicine talk

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

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  3. 2025 · Guest lecture

    BMDS 272: Building Successful Startups in Healthcare

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

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  4. Oct 2024 — present · Epic · Curiosity

    ML Research Engineering Manager

    Led Curiosity's R&D and managed a 7-engineer research team to advance model capabilities. Built a clinician-validated evaluation suite across 78 clinically relevant tasks.

  5. Sep 2022 — Oct 2024 · Epic · Cosmos

    ML Research Engineer

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

    Cosmos

  6. 2018 — 2022 · San Francisco State University

    B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

    San Francisco State University.