Summary
Jesse Mu is an NLP and machine learning researcher-engineer with 12 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco working at the intersection of language modeling and psycholinguistics. Their background spans top research labs—DeepMind, Facebook AI—and industry roles from Alexa ML at Amazon to product-adjacent consulting on deep learning and text generation for Codecademy. Jesse combines rigorous academic training (PhD candidate at Stanford, MPhil Cambridge, BA Boston College) with hands-on research internships and applied engineering, enabling rapid translation of cognitive science insights into practical ML systems. Notably, their trajectory reflects sustained focus on language acquisition and comprehension across diverse settings, suggesting a knack for marrying human-centered linguistic theory with scalable model development.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Advanced Computer Science, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Boston College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Chinese