Chris Nicholson
Member Of Global Affairs Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Nicholson is a technology entrepreneur and investor with 12 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven products and companies from open-source tooling to commercial deployments. He founded Skymind, creator of Eclipse Deeplearning4j, and later led Pathmind to apply deep reinforcement learning and synthetic-data-driven simulations to real-world supply chain and operations problems before an acquihire into Clipboard Health. At Clipboard Health he built and led the first data and ML team, delivering a dynamic pricing platform that materially doubled revenue in key categories and supported the company’s growth to unicorn status. Now on OpenAI’s Global Affairs staff, he combines data, storytelling, and economic research to communicate major AI use cases and policy implications. As a venture partner and angel investor he focuses on frontier AI/ML, deep tech and biotech, backing startups across semiconductors, reversible computing and superconductivity. His background in journalism and Zen practice gives him a rare blend of narrative clarity and disciplined, systems-level thinking when translating technical complexity for diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Growth, Growth at Y CombinatorPhilosophy and Political Science, Philosophy and Political Science at Deep Springs CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Political Science at The American University of ParisZazen, Zazen at Tassajara Zen Center
English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (100)
python10
hadoop10
differentiation10
deep-learning10
gpu10
backend10
medical10
modular10
machine-learning-algorithms10
onnx10
clojure10
nlp10
math-library10
spark10
artificial-intelligence10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firasdib/nd4j
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 commits in 9 months
numerical-computingjvmscientificcomputingjava
rusthon/deeplearning4j
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1163 commits in 1 year
learning-platformdeep-learningmachine-learningsparkscala
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