Jia Cheoh
Founder at Next AI
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJia Cheoh is a founder and PhD candidate at Purdue University specializing in creativity-driven machine learning, large language models, and human–AI alignment, with a decade of experience building production ML systems. She founded an AI venture in real estate that funds her doctoral work and previously delivered AI-driven advertising and predictive platforms that boosted sales performance for Fortune 500 clients. Her research bridges linguistic structure, reward design, and interpretability to make models that generalize to real-world decision-making while remaining aligned with human intent. Technically fluent in Python, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, she pairs rigorous academic inquiry with hands-on engineering across full-stack and ML infrastructure projects. Raised as the eldest in a single-parent household, she credits resilience and initiative for her entrepreneurial drive and collaborates closely with an ethics philosopher partner to keep alignment research people-centered.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI & Human-Centered Computing (Focus: NLU, Creativity, and AI Ethics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI & Human-Centered Computing (Focus: NLU, Creativity, and AI Ethics) at Purdue UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
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Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ironhacks/ironhacks-org
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
jialincheoh/jialincheoh
Aug 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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