Research profile
AI evaluation researcher and builder working on model reasoning, human judgment, agent behavior, computational methods, explainable AI, and research infrastructure.
Current research leadership
- Co-Principal Investigator, Archival Intelligence. Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute; computational workflows, evaluation design, and open research infrastructure.
- Co-PI, MLA team, NIST CAISI consortium. Standards-facing AI evaluation, red-teaming, reasoning, judgment, and explanation.
Selected technical contributions
- SentimentArcs: independently authored ensemble method for narrative trajectory analysis.
- Narrative trajectory comparison: LTTB normalization and dynamic time warping for unequal-length arcs.
- Explainable narrative analysis: sentence-level evidence and interpretable comparison, with Katherine Elkins.
- MultiSentimentArcs: independently authored multimodal comparison of dialogue and image trajectories.
Research infrastructure & systems
- Archival Intelligence: multilingual and historical-data workflows, retrieval, provenance, and evaluation infrastructure.
- SafeWeb and Symantec: deployed privacy, security, web-anonymization, and SSL/clientless VPN systems.
Technical leadership & entrepreneurship
- SafeWeb, Inc.: co-founder, later CEO (2000–2003); acquired by Symantec.
- Symantec: director of development, Clientless VPN Appliance.
Selected publications
See Research and Google Scholar.
Patents & software
- US 7,730,528, “Intelligent secure data manipulation apparatus and method”
- US 8,065,520, “Method and apparatus for encrypted communications to a secure server”
- SentimentArcs open-source implementation
Human-Centered AI & program building
Co-founder of Kenyon’s AI CoLab and Human-Centered AI program. Jon designed the technical curriculum and courses that move students from introductory programming to original computational and AI research.
Teaching
Visiting instructor of humanities and affiliated scholar in scientific computing, Kenyon College (2016–present). See technical curriculum and mentored research.
Education
- M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1995)
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (1989)