Jon A. Chun
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.
