CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

No One Size Fits All: QueryBandits for Hallucination Mitigation

Nicole Cho, William Watson, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh, and Manuela Veloso. (2026). "No One Size Fits All: QueryBandits for Hallucination Mitigation." ICLR 2026 (Under Review).

TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation

Nicole Cho, Kirsty Fielding, William Watson, Sumitra Ganesh, and Manuela Veloso. (2026). "TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation." EACL 2026 (Under Review).

MultiQ&A: An Analysis in Measuring Robustness via Automated Crowdsourcing of Question Perturbations and Answers

Nicole Cho and William Watson. (2025). "MultiQ&A: An Analysis in Measuring Robustness via Automated Crowdsourcing of Question Perturbations and Answers." AAAI 2025 PDLM.

MultiQ&A: An Analysis in Measuring Robustness via Automated Crowdsourcing of Question Perturbations and Answers

Nicole Cho and William Watson. (2025). "MultiQ&A: An Analysis in Measuring Robustness via Automated Crowdsourcing of Question Perturbations and Answers." AAAI 2025 PDLM.

LAW: Legal Agentic Workflows for Custody and Fund Services Contracts

William Watson, Nicole Cho, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Lucas Cecchi, Daniel Scott, Suchetha Siddagangappa, Rachneet Kaur, Tucker Balch, and Manuela Veloso. (2025). "LAW: Legal Agentic Workflows for Custody and Fund Services Contracts." COLING 2025.

FISHNET: Financial Intelligence from Sub-querying, Harmonizing, Neural-Conditioning, Expert Swarms, and Task Planning

Nicole Cho, Nishan Srishankar, Lucas Cecchi, and William Watson. (2024). "FISHNET: Financial Intelligence from Sub-querying, Harmonizing, Neural-Conditioning, Expert Swarms, and Task Planning." ICAIF 2024.

HiddenTables & PyQTax: A Cooperative Game and Dataset For TableQA to Ensure Scale and Data Privacy Across a Myriad of Taxonomies

William Watson, Nicole Cho, Tucker Balch, and Manuela Veloso. (2023). "HiddenTables & PyQTax: A Cooperative Game and Dataset For TableQA to Ensure Scale and Data Privacy Across a Myriad of Taxonomies." EMNLP 2023.

Financial Table Extraction in Image Documents

William Watson and Bo Liu. (2020). "Financial Table Extraction in Image Documents." ICAIF 2020.

Is There No Such Thing as a Bad Question? H4R: HalluciBot For Ratiocination, Rewriting, Ranking, and Routing

William Watson, Nicole Cho, and Nishan Srishankar. (2025). "Is There No Such Thing as a Bad Question? H4R: HalluciBot For Ratiocination, Rewriting, Ranking, and Routing." AAAI 2025.

FlowMind: Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs

Zhen Zeng, William Watson, Nicole Cho, Saba Rahimi, Shayleen Reynolds, Tucker Balch, and Manuela Veloso. (2023). "FlowMind: Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs." ICAIF 2023.

BuDDIE: A Business Document Dataset for Multi-task Information Extraction

Dongsheng Wang, Ran Zmigrod, Mathieu J. Sibue, Yulong Pei, Petr Babkin, Ivan Brugere, Xiaomo Liu, Nacho Navarro, Antony Papadimitriou, William Watson, Zhiqiang Ma, Armineh Nourbakhsh, and Sameena Shah. (2025). "BuDDIE: A Business Document Dataset for Multi-task Information Extraction." COLING 2025 FinNLP+FNP+LLMFinLegal.

Directed Criteria Citation Recommendation and Ranking Through Link Prediction

William Watson and Lawrence Yong. (2020). "Directed Criteria Citation Recommendation and Ranking Through Link Prediction." ICAIF 2020 Extended Abstract.

BizGraphQA: A Dataset for Image-based Inference over Graph-structured Diagrams from Business Domains

Petr Babkin, William Watson, Zhiqiang Ma, Lucas Cecchi, Natraj Raman, Armineh Nourbakhsh, and Sameena Shah. (2023). "BizGraphQA: A Dataset for Image-based Inference over Graph-structured Diagrams from Business Domains." SIGIR 2023.

Leadership In Turbulent Times: Women CEOs During COVID-19

Daniela Brandazza, Marion Amiot, Katie Darden, William Watson, Gabriel Morin, Rose Marie Burke, Victoria Schumacher, Gaurang Dholakia, Lindsey Hall, Azadeh Nematzadeh, and Nicole Serino. (2022). "Leadership In Turbulent Times: Women CEOs During COVID-19." S&P Global Special Reports.

Customer Experience Focus Can Improve Equity And Credit Performance

Sheryl Kingstone, Sudeep Kesh, Jeong Choi, Clayton Davis, William Watson, and Sundaram Iyer. (n.d.). "Customer Experience Focus Can Improve Equity And Credit Performance." S&P Global Special Reports.

Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages

Arya D. McCarthy, Winston Wu, Aaron Mueller, William Watson, and David Yarowsky. (2019). "Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages." EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.

Development of Computer Vision and Image Processing Libraries at the National Synchrotron Light Source - II

William Watson and Kazimierz Gofron. (2016). "Development of Computer Vision and Image Processing Libraries at the National Synchrotron Light Source - II." BNL Internship Reports.

Talks

Teaching

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams