William Hiesinger is the surgical director of the LVAD/Mechanical Circulatory Support, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, and CTEPH programs at Stanford University. He also serves as the program director for the Transplant/MCS fellowship. His practice encompasses the full spectrum of cardiothoracic surgery including transplantation, valvular repair, complex aortic surgery, and coronary revascularization with a focus on high risk and heart failure patients. Dr. Hiesingers research group spans the disciplines of computer science and cardiovascular biology and builds novel foundational deep learning systems designed to better represent and process high-dimensional inputs and apply these systems towards clinical problems. Based on this work, he was awarded an NIH R01 grant (HL157235-01A1 Radiomics approach to engineering an artificial intelligence based echocardiography platform to predict cardiovascular surgery and heart failure outcomes). This research has yielded senior author publications in journals including Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, JHLT, and Circulation Heart Failure.