Jesse Michel
Founding Research Scientist at Tutor Intelligence
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Michel is a founding research scientist and roboticist with 11 years of experience blending deep theory and practical systems engineering across ML, differentiable programming, and physics-based simulation. He recently finished a PhD at MIT where he extended distribution theory to make physical simulations and rendering differentiable end-to-end, spanning math, semantics, compiler work, and numerical integration. Jesse has a strong industry track record from internships at Google, Microsoft, IBM, ASAPP and clinical and biotech analytics projects, bringing both production engineering and research rigor to product contexts. At Tutor Intelligence he applies that cross-disciplinary expertise to build "robot brains" that tightly couple data, models, and systems. He pairs a pure math and CS background with hands-on experience in compilers, large-model compression, and simulation, which lets him move fluidly between abstract proofs and shipping code. Notably, his work emphasizes formal foundations for practical compute—making theoretically grounded tools that scale to real-world pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Academy of Math and Science
Github Skills (59)
simulation10
javascript10
parser10
visualization10
python10
drag-and-drop10
tensorflowjs10
typescript10
in-browser10
gradient10
automatic-differentiation10
derivative10
argument-parsing10
differentiable-programming10
cpp10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
martinjm97/PersonalWebsite
Feb 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:21 pushes in 6 years 4 months
martinjm97/GeoMax.jl
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 months
manoptjulia
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