Our Founder
William J. Bosl, PhD
William J. Bosl, PhD
Founder
Professor, University of San Francisco
Affiliate Faculty, Boston Children’s Hospital
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Director and Chief Scientist
Biography
William J. Bosl is a neuroscientist and data scientist at the University of San Francisco. He is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions and member of the Data Institute, where he leads the Healthcare AI Initiative and directs the Clinical Neuroinformatics & AI Laboratory. He teaches and develops AI algorithms for clinical biomarker discovery with researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he holds an Affiliate Research Faculty position. Before beginning research in neuroscience and biomedical informatics, he worked as a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, during which he completed a PhD at Stanford University. In 2005, Dr. Bosl joined the Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) where his focus on finding digital biomarkers for pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders have led to long-term collaborations with multiple clinical researchers and departments, including Neurology, Psychiatry, Developmental Medicine, and Sleep Disorders.
Expertise
Biomedical Informatics, data science and AI
Computational and cognitive neuroscience
Nonlinear signal processing and dynamical systems
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Research Areas
Clinical neuroinformatics
Autism, epilepsy, neurodevelopment, childhood anxiety and depression
Nonlinear dynamics, signal analysis
Machine learning, AI, reservoir computing
Consciousness, moral agency in humans and machines
Appointments
Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association
Fellow, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
Chair, Clinical Research Committee, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
Chair, Faculty Development Fund Committee, USF
Education
Boston University, PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016
Stanford University, PhD in Geophysics, 1999
MA, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
MS, Atmospheric Physics, University of Michigan
BS, Chemistry, Miami University
Prior Experience
Affiliate Faculty, Boston Children's Hospital
Instructor, then Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Founding Director, Health Informatics Program, USF
Research Associate, Stanford University
Computer Scientist, University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Awards & Distinctions
Distinguished Faculty Research Award, University of San Francisco, 2019
Carol Biber Memorial Award for Excellence in Behavioral Neuroscience Research, Boston University School of Medicine, 2015
Henry I. Russek Doctoral Achievement Award, Boston University School of Medicine, 2015
Selected Publications
Bosl, W. J., & Capua Shenkar, J. R. (2025). Dynamical measures of developing neuroelectric fields in emerging consciousness. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 61, 101480.
Bauer, A., Bosl, W., Aalami, O., & Schmiedmayer, P. (2025). Toward Scalable Access to Neurodevelopmental Screening: Insights, Implementation, and Challenges (arXiv:2503.13472). arXiv.
Vieluf, S., Tomioka, S., Zhang, B., Krishnan, V., Bosl, W. J., Grinnell, T., & Loddenkemper, T. (2025). Seizure monitoring by combined diary and wearable data: A multicenter, longitudinal, observational study. Epilepsia. .
Putica, A., Khanna, R., Bosl, W., Saraf, S., & Edgcomb, J. (2025). Ethical decision-making for AI in mental health: The Integrated Ethical Approach for Computational Psychiatry (IEACP) framework. Psychological Medicine, 55, e213.
Bosl, W., Enlow, M. B. & Nelson, C. (2025). A dynamical systems framework for precision psychiatry. Nature Digital Medicine, in press.
Professional Affiliations
American Medical Informatics Association
IEEE, Computational Intelligence SIG
International Neuropsychological Society
American Psychological Society