projects | Will Rowan

PXLD

Co-founder & CEO. University of York spinout building the next generation of filmmaking tools, making Hollywood-grade VFX accessible to any production. Featured in Variety and Screen Daily. Selected for Zinemaldia Startup Challenge and European Film Market Startup Programme.

Neuralatex

The world's first machine learning library written entirely in LaTeX. Trains neural networks during PDF compilation. MLPs, CNNs, ResNets, Transformers, and MiniGPT, all in 25,000 lines of TeX. Best Presentation, ICVSS 2025.

Before Sunrise Tracker

An interactive web experience mapping the real-time journey of Céline and Jesse through Vienna in Before Sunrise (1995). When it is 11pm in Vienna, the tracker shows you where the characters would be at that moment, walking the same streets in real time.

Swingometer

An interactive visual election forecast for the UK. Constituency-level maps, real-time poll tracking, and Monte Carlo seat simulations you can explore yourself. I built it because I wanted to see forecasts I could interrogate, not just read.

Film Fever

A 9-minute experimental documentary shot during the REAL Academy at the Locarno Film Festival in 2025. An impressionistic portrait of heat, exhaustion, and dreams at a film festival. Directorial debut.

Foresight

AI research intelligence platform. Visualises academic papers on an interactive timeline, predicts future research directions, and lets you implement them with live AI agents. 2nd place, UCL AI Festival Hackathon 2026. Built with Simon Luo.

Speak EU

Technical Lead and Advisor. A Gen-AI civic assistant helping EU citizens turn complaints into democratic action. Only 2.4% of EU citizens know the participation tools available to them. Selected for Alpbach IDEAS 2025-2026, mentored by Prof. Alberto Alemanno (HEC Paris).

opencall.fyi

Founder. A curated platform helping emerging artists discover residencies, fellowships, grants, and competitions across film, visual arts, and criticism. The right opportunity should not depend on your postcode.

Club Alpbach London

Scholarships Coordinator and website developer. The UK chapter of the European Forum Alpbach, connecting young people aged 18-30 with fully-funded scholarships to Europe's leading interdisciplinary forum in the Austrian Alps.