William Bosl

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 neurodevelopmentl disorders have led to long-term collaborations with multiple clinical researchers and departments, including Neurology, Psychiatry, Developmental Medicine, and Sleep Disorders. 

• Neuroscience
• Biomedical Informatics, physiological signal processing, AI
• Neurodevelopmental disorders

• Clinical neuroinformatics
• Autism, epilepsy, childhood anxiety and depression
• Nonlinear dynamics, signal analysis
• Machine learning, AI, reservoir computing
• Consciousness

• Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association
• Fellow, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
• Chair, Clinical Research Committee, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
• Chair, Faculty Development Fund Committee, USF

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Bosl, W., Enlow, M. B. & Nelson, C. A QR Code for the Brain: A dynamical systems framework for computing neurophysiological biomarkers. Preprint (2024).

• Vieluf, Solveig, Sarah Cantley, Michele Jackson, Bo Zhang, William J. Bosl, and Tobias Loddenkemper. 2023. “Development of a Multivariable Seizure Likelihood Assessment Based on Clinical Information and Short Autonomic Activity Recordings for Children With Epilepsy.” Pediatric Neurology 148 (November): 118–27. 

• Bosl, William J., Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Eric F. Lock, and Charles A. Nelson. 2023. “A Biomarker Discovery Framework for Childhood Anxiety.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 14: 1158569. 

• American Medical Informatics Association
• IEEE, Computational Intelligence SIG
• International Neuropsychological Society
• American Psychological Society