William Sharpe
Building where AI meets the real world.
I'm studying Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell, and I like taking machine learning out of the notebook and putting it to work on real problems: markets, buildings, small businesses. Startups are where I feel most at home.
2nd Place, BigRed//Hacks 2026 for marko, indoor AR navigation →
Selected work
03 projects
marko
Indoor AR wayfinding built from a floor plan and a single phone scan. No beacons, no QR codes.
View project →Kalshi Weather Trading Bot
A bot that prices weather markets in 10 cities from 139-member ensemble forecasts and trades the gap.
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AI-Powered Web Design Agency
An AI pipeline that finds local businesses with weak websites, scores them, and pitches a better one.
View project →I'm most interested in the moment software stops being a demo and starts changing how something actually works.
That has meant a weather-trading bot running with real money, a hackathon app that turns a phone scan into indoor AR navigation, and an outreach engine that finds local businesses who need a better web presence. The common thread is automation that leaves the screen and makes a measurable difference.
I'm drawn to entrepreneurship and to people who push on what's possible. If you're building something ambitious in AI, automation, or anything at the edge of tech and the real world, I'd love to hear about it.
- Studying
- Operations Research & Information EngineeringCornell University, Duffield College of Engineering · '29
- Awards
- 2nd Place, BigRed//Hacks 2026marko, an indoor AR navigation app
- Building
- Co-founder, stealth startupLive events and hospitality
- Founded
- Stats for Sticks501(c)(3) nonprofit funding underserved lacrosse teams
- Based in
- Ithaca, NYFrom Los Angeles, CA
- Toolkit
- Python, Claude API & Claude CodeMachine learning, optimization, data, automation