Stanford CS + Math · Healthcare · Economics

Weston Benner

Palantir · J.P. Morgan · MD Anderson

Building at the intersection of AI, markets, medicine, and public impact.

Weston Benner

About

I’m a student at Stanford exploring where technology meets real-world consequence: healthcare delivery, emergency response, financial systems, and the organizations that hold them all together. I spend most of my time thinking about how intelligent systems can make complex decisions clearer and more actionable.

Before arriving at Stanford, I built a broad foundation across emergency medicine, computer science, journalism, and biomedical inquiry. Those experiences taught me that the hardest problems are rarely technical alone; they involve communication, judgment under pressure, and deep respect for the people a system is meant to serve. I’m especially drawn to problems that sit between disciplines: where venture thinking meets clinical reality, where market structure meets policy, and where software meets the messy, high-stakes environments it needs to operate in.

Ask Me About…

Clickable threads from the things I keep coming back to.

EMS systems

I’m interested in emergency medicine as an information problem: fragmented signals, limited time, and decisions that have to become action quickly. That’s what drew me to EMT work and to building EMS operations tools.

EMTEMS Operations DashboardPrehospital care

Where I’ve Been / Where I’m Going

A path through storytelling, systems, medicine, and technology.

Daily Dispatch

Quiz Bowl, travel map, and a medicine micro-card — same row of controls; open any panel below.

Field note · Travel

Every map is also a memory system.

Focus & Experience

Recurring themes across my work and the experiences behind them. Expand a section to see roles and projects in that area.

AI & Technical Systems

Technical Building

Building data-driven and AI-enabled systems that translate complex inputs into usable decisions.

AbilityPath AI Front-Desk Agent

Project Lead

Built a conversational AI front-desk intake and routing system for families seeking disability services, using LLM-based extraction, structured data capture, backend CRM integration, and SMS/consent workflows.

EMS Operations Dashboard

Builder

Created a Palantir Foundry operations system integrating dispatch, hospital, and patient data to model emergency response and rerouting decisions.

Convexity

Founder

Created a competition platform integrating continuous market APIs across stocks and crypto to score user decision-making.

QuERY Quantum Optimization

Research Collaborator

Python-based research modeling quantum optimization and probabilistic search pathways, developed through collaboration with MIT and Harvard engineering labs.

Healthcare & Emergency Medicine

Healthcare & Research

Exploring how better systems can improve care delivery, emergency response, and healthcare coordination.

Santa Clara County

Emergency Medical Technician

Delivered nationally licensed emergency care and rapid triage for a large student population.

MD Anderson

Research Assistant

Studied JAK/STAT pathway biology in resistant cutaneous T-cell lymphomas and presented research to senior researchers.

Houston Methodist

Caring Teens Ambassador

Supported hospital operations and patient care in clinical settings.

Venture, Markets & Finance

Venture & Finance

Studying how capital, risk, and markets shape which ideas scale — especially in healthcare and technical infrastructure.

J.P. Morgan Commercial/Investment Banking

Incoming Summer Analyst

Incoming role focused on financial risk, markets, and institutional decision-making.

Bank of America

Investment Intern

Conducted fundamental analysis of mission-related nonprofits for philanthropic investment.

SENSA VC / BayMed Ventures

Healthcare Investment Research

Built healthcare investment thesis work around emergency medicine and prehospital care.

BASES

Frosh Battalion

Selected out of 600+ freshmen to participate in leadership training, service, and cohort programming alongside campus peers.

Public Impact & Disability Advocacy

Public Impact & Communication

Working on systems and communities that expand access, dignity, and support for people with disabilities and underserved families.

Best Buddies

Texas Student Advisory Board / Texas Ambassador

Represented thousands of disabled students and helped lead advocacy, inclusion, and fundraising efforts.

Transform Tutoring

Educational Consultant

Tutored students with Down syndrome, autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.

Communication & Leadership

Public Impact & Communication

Using writing, storytelling, and team leadership to make complex issues understandable and actionable.

Three Penny Press

Editor

Led and contributed to award-winning student journalism.

TED Speaker

"Students in Generation AI"

Spoke publicly on students and generative AI.

National German Honor Society

President

Led chapter initiatives and represented high-achieving language students regionally.

Geography Club

Founder

Founded and organized a student geography club focused on competitions and global literacy.

How it connects

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AI SystemsHealthcareEmergency MedicineVenture & MarketsPublic ImpactCommunicationAbilityPath AIEMS DashboardSanta Clara EMTHouston MethodistMD AndersonBayMed VenturesSENSA VCBASESJ.P. Morgan CIBBank of AmericaBest BuddiesTransform TutoringThree Penny PressTED SpeakerQuERYConvexity

Featured Projects

Selected work across healthcare, AI, venture, and public impact.

AbilityPath AI Front-Desk Agent

A 24/7 AI-powered front-desk intake and routing system helping families navigate disability services through structured voice/text data capture, program matching, CRM integration, and follow-up workflows. Used by 600 families per month. Saves ~$60,000 per year.

Voice AILLMsDisability ServicesTwilioRetell AIElevenLabsNonprofit

EMS Operations Dashboard

A Palantir Foundry dashboard modeling dispatch, patient status, hospital capacity, and rerouting decisions to explore the future of prehospital coordination.

Palantir FoundryEMSHealthcare OperationsData SystemsDecision Support

Healthcare Venture Thesis

An investment thesis focused on prehospital modernization, AI-first documentation, EMS-hospital integration, and infrastructure for proactive emergency response.

Healthcare VCEMSMarket ResearchAI Infrastructure
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Convexity

A market competition platform using live stock and crypto APIs to score user decisions and create a more dynamic way to learn markets.

MarketsAPIsProductCompetition PlatformFinance

QuERY Quantum Optimization

Python-based research modeling quantum optimization and probabilistic search pathways, developed through collaboration with MIT and Harvard engineering labs.

PythonAlgorithmsQuantum OptimizationResearch

Awards & Recognition

Academic
  • 4.0 / 4.0 GPA at Stanford

  • IB Diploma Recipient

    43/45

  • National Merit Finalist

  • National German Exam Gold Medal

  • International History Olympiad Qualifier

Technical
  • AP Computer Science Exam — Perfect Score

    Top 0.15% nationwide

  • Tech for Good Hackathon — Most Innovative Solution

    Youngest winner among 130+ industry software engineers

  • QuERY Research Presentations

    MIT and Harvard Engineering

Leadership & Public Impact
  • Bank of America Student Leader

  • Stanford Abundance Fellow

    Inaugural class

  • Best Buddies Champion of the Year Gala

    Led students in Gala raising $124,000

  • Texas Student Advisory Board / Texas Ambassador

    Best Buddies

Communication
  • TED Speaker — "Students in Generation AI"

  • Three Penny Press Senior Editor

  • Individual Journalism Recognition

    3rd nationwide (Quill and Scroll)

  • Three Penny Press Rankings

    Top 10 internationally (Best of SNO)

Writing & Thinking

Notes on healthcare systems, AI infrastructure, markets, risk, and public impact.

The Future of Prehospital Care

Research Paper

Risk, Resilience, and the Fortress Balance Sheet

Drafting

Technology, Medicine, and Human Judgment

Coming soon

Building for Families, Not Just Users

Drafting

Unnatural Disasters: Famine as a Military Tactic

Research paper

Personal Writing:

Writings

Selected poems and creative work from college.

  • Poem / City portrait

    Hueston

    A dense, multilingual portrait of Houston: migration, oil, medicine, highways, heat, and memory.

    ~2 min read

  • Experimental poem

    scattershots

    A compressed alliterative poem about screens, spectacle, numbness, and survival.

    ~1 min read

  • Prose poem

    Cockroach Conversations

    A litany of worry, grief, tenderness, absurdity, and imagined address.

    ~2 min read

  • Poem / Domestic memory

    Scary Chicken

    A domestic poem about food, inheritance, fear, family, and the strange intimacy of eating.

    ~1 min read

Get in Touch

I’m always interested in thoughtful conversations around AI, healthcare, venture, markets, and public-impact technology.