Jack Hessel
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJack Hessel is a research-driven software engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and engineering, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in Seattle. He progressed from PhD research at Cornell through research roles and internships at AI2, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and smaller AI startups, bringing deep experience in building and evaluating advanced ML systems. As a founding researcher at Samaya AI and a research scientist at AI2, he has repeatedly bridged prototype research and practical ML deployment, with a track record of shipping research-informed solutions. Based in Seattle and trained in computer science and mathematics, he combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on product instincts—often contributing to both experimental research and production-quality code. An underappreciated strength is his history of short, impactful academic and industrial collaborations (visiting faculty, REU, multiple internships) that hint at an ability to rapidly ramp into new domains and cross-pollinate ideas.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Cornell University Graduate SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics/Statistics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics/Statistics at Carleton College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (145)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
classifier10
lda10
fasttext10
flax10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
wordnet10
phonetics10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
acl10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmhessel/pycocoevalcap
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Python 3 support for the MS COCO caption evaluation tools
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
jmhessel/catrank
Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
Pretrained models for the ranking task described in Cats and Captions vs. Creators and the Clock (WWW 2017)
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
clockpretrained-modelsrankingcaptionscreators
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