Summary
Finn Kuusisto is a data scientist with 14 years of multidisciplinary experience melding academic research, startup product development, and defense-focused AI integration. At UW–Madison’s Data Science Institute he supports investigators across campus on AI and data science projects and helps craft technical proposal components, while also serving as an AI Integration Officer with the Department of the Air Force/MIT AI Accelerator. He co-founded FANTM to build wearable human-computer interfaces, bringing hands-on hardware-software design experience to his data science work. His background includes postdoctoral research at the Morgridge Institute and operational cyberspace experience in the Air Force Reserve, giving him a rare combination of deep technical, experimental, and operational perspectives. Based in Madison, he holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UW–Madison and is known for translating complex research into practical, funded projects.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA Computer Science Classics, BA Computer Science Classics at Gustavus Adolphus College