Jake Robertson
AI Scientist at Prior Labs
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJake Robertson is an AI scientist and PhD candidate with eight years of research and engineering experience focused on the legal, ethical, and philosophical intersections of AI and society. Located in Freiburg and affiliated with ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the University of Freiburg under Dr. Frank Hutter, he works on causal perspectives in machine learning, fairness, and prior-fitted networks (PFNs). His work has been published at ICML and AIES, and his master's projects produced FairPFN and fairness-aware MOHPO tools while contributing to NASLib for reproducible neural architecture search. Currently at Prior Labs as an AI Scientist and research intern, he bridges rigorous academic research with applied industry problems. Jake combines a strong academic pedigree (Queen’s, Helsinki, Freiburg) with practical software engineering experience from internships at BNY Mellon and open-source development. He’s notable for integrating causal inference into socio-technical ML solutions—bringing philosophical scrutiny to concrete model and systems design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Specialization in Artificial Intelligence at The University of FreiburgAcademic Exchange Department of Computer Science, Academic Exchange Department of Computer Science at University of HelsinkiBachelor of Computing (BCPH) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (BCPH) Computer Science at Queen's University
German
Github Skills (23)
nas10
optimizers9
neural-architecture-search9
architecture8
automl7
discrimination6
machine-learning6
r5
python5
artificial-intelligence4
datasets4
deep-learning4
fairness-ml3
ai3
bias-detection3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jr2021/jr2021.github.io
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
jr2021/k_means_group_culture
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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