William Jake Heffley

William Jake Heffley is a Machine Learning Staff Scientist at ARA since February 2022, where leadership of a team focused on developing and validating a novel scene type classification algorithm and deploying products on AWS and Docker has been prominent. Prior experience includes serving as a Computational Neuroscientist Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where a Python software package for rodent motor behavior analysis was built and machine learning applied to behavioral and neural data. William Jake Heffley also contributed to research as a Graduate Researcher at Duke University, engaging in experimental design, data collection, and analysis while investigating cerebellar learning strategies. Educational credentials include a PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University School of Medicine and a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Baylor University.