Christopher Potts
Co-Founder And Chief Scientist at Bigspin AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Potts is a Stanford professor and entrepreneur with 12 years of industry-facing experience and a deep research pedigree in language and information. As Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Bigspin AI and former Amazon Scholar, he blends academic rigor with product-driven AI innovation. He has led Stanford's language-focused initiatives—serving as department chair and director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information—while also advising and building products as chief scientist at Roam Analytics. His open-source contributions include educational tooling for distributed word representations, reflecting a commitment to clear, pedagogical code alongside research. Based in Palo Alto, he is known for translating complex linguistic models into practical tools and startups that bridge scholarship and real-world impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
jupyter-notebook10
word-embeddings10
ipython10
python10
markdown-it9
markdown9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cgpotts/cs224u
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Code for Stanford CS224u
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 432 commits, 101 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Christopher's commit focused on implementing the first draft of a codelab on distributed word representations in the form of an IPython notebook. The edits include the creation of the notebook itself along with the inclusion of markdown and code examples relating to the topic of word embeddings. The work primarily involves creating examples, and descriptions to aid in the learning and understanding of distributed word representations.
deep-learningstanfordmachine-learning
cgpotts/pypragmods
Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:65 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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