William Hicks

Will Hicks is a former senior software engineer on the NVIDIA RAPIDS team. Hicks has an MS in Physics from Brandeis University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University.
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Data Science Jun 05, 2025

Supercharge Tree-Based Model Inference with Forest Inference Library in NVIDIA cuML

Tree-ensemble models remain a go-to for tabular data because they're accurate, comparatively inexpensive to train, and fast. But deploying Python inference on... 11 MIN READ
Data Science Feb 02, 2022

Real-time Serving for XGBoost, Scikit-Learn RandomForest, LightGBM, and More

The success of deep neural networks in multiple areas has prompted a great deal of thought and effort on how to deploy these models for use in real-world... 7 MIN READ