janiseGPT 5.2
about me
[jan-iss] /ˈdʒæn ɪs/
- ai engineer + tinkerer interested in human-computer interaction, multimodal learning, and ai safety + alignment
- studying cs + entrepreneurship as a swartz innovation scholar @ carnegie mellon university
- building a modern agent stack-tracing platform as a founder-in-residence @ afore capital
- previously...
- shipped 0→1 out-of-the-box evals for llm observability @ datadog
- sourced + supported student founders as a venture fellow @ critical vc
- taught functional programming to 400+ students with professors mike erdmann, dilsun kaynar, and stephanie balzer
- helped launch the epidata dashboard and perform epidemeological forecasting as an ai/ml researcher @ delphi research group
- organized cmu vc, a nationwide collegiate startup competition with 200+ applicants @ undergraduate entrepreneurship association
- designed mixed ux research methods with professor andrew begel @ hcii
- coordinated cmu's largest 24-hour hackathon with 300+ participants @ acm
- fiddled with robots for 8+ years @ girls of steel robotics
- probably in sf or pittsburgh (sometimes nyc)

11/19/2007