Research scientist and AI leader specializing in interdisciplinary ML/AI applications across high-impact domains. Over the past decade, Jon has mentored 400+ original AI/ML projects spanning nearly every academic discipline — from narrative and medicine to security and political science — with work downloaded 95,000+ times by institutions including Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Amazon, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Currently serving as tech lead for the 25,000-member MLA team in the NIST US AI Safety Institute for LLM evaluation and red-teaming, and co-PI for Schmidt Sciences HAVI (1 of 23 teams worldwide), building open-source AI tools to rescue endangered jazz archives in New Orleans. Prior industry: co-founded SafeWeb ($26M acquisition by Symantec; first In-Q-Tel security investment); two US patents.
10 additional papers under review at ICML, FAccT, UAI, CogSci, TMLR, DMLR, and Journal of Cyber Policy (2026). GitHub →
Earlier: UC Berkeley COE Entrepreneur in Residence · Startup advisor at Berkeley Engineering and OSU · Latin eVentures CTO (São Paulo, $8M raised) · Lawrence Berkeley Labs · SEMATECH · MMS Int'l / McGraw-Hill Tokyo. Languages: Japanese (JLPT), Spanish (US Foreign Service), French.