Dustin Dannenhauer
Founder at Delegance AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Dannenhauer is an AI scientist and founder based in San Francisco with 13+ years building resilient, metacognitive AI and LLM-based agent systems. He has led DARPA SAIL-ON projects and contributed core architecture to MIDCA, translating hard novelty and explainability research into applied agents for dynamic environments. At companies like GoCharlie.ai, Parallax, DVMDash and in open-source work (including NPC pathfinding for the Tuxemon RPG), he blends deep research with pragmatic engineering to ship human-in-the-loop and autonomy-focused systems. His work emphasizes robustness and goal-driven autonomy—often tackling failure modes and online adaptation rather than just accuracy improvements. As a PhD-trained researcher who has mentored students and run advanced projects for government and startups, he bridges academic rigor with product-minded delivery. He now channels that experience into founding Delegance AI to commercialize resilient social and agentic AI.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Lehigh University
Hindi
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
pathfinding10
game-development10
python10
game-ai9
pygame9
data-structure9
data-structures9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Tuxemon/Tuxemon
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Open source monster-fighting RPG.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dustin focused on implementing pathfinding algorithms for the Tuxemon game, a monster-fighting RPG. Their primary contributions involved modifying the map component to support collision lines and developing a breadth-first search algorithm to determine movement paths for non-player characters (NPCs). They also adjusted the player's movement logic to incorporate the pathfinding results, enabling NPC movement along pre-calculated paths.
2d-gamegamefightingrpggame-development
dtdannen/malmo_stuff
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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