Johann Hauswald
CEO And Co-founder at Plix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJohann Hauswald is a serial entrepreneur and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven systems and startups from research to production. As CEO and co-founder of Plix, he’s applying agentic wearable tech to modern workforce management, drawing on deep expertise in cloud architectures, ML systems, and video understanding from his Stanford postdoc. He previously co-founded Clinc, a conversational AI company serving major banks, demonstrating product-market success and enterprise deployments at scale. Johann combines hands-on backend and data-science skills—evident from contributions to the Lucida speech-and-vision assistant where he optimized profiling, GMM/DNN scoring, and XML analysis—with strategic leadership. Trained as an electrical engineer with an MS and PhD from the University of Michigan, he bridges rigorous academic research and pragmatic startup execution. Based in the Bay Area, he blends systems-level thinking with a knack for turning complex ML research into deployable products.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBaccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycee Rochambeau French International School
French, German, English
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Github Skills (14)
python10
xml-parsing10
algorithms9
optimization9
cprogramming-language9
optimisation9
machine-learning9
numerical-optimization9
c-language9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
gmm8
caffe7
computer-vision6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
claritylab/lucida
May 2014 - May 2017
Speech and Vision Based Intelligent Personal Assistant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:716 commits, 34 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Johann's commits indicate work on a speech and vision-based personal assistant. The user implemented profiling tools for performance analysis, specifically focusing on identifying hotspots and optimizing the code. They demonstrated expertise in XML parsing and analysis, likely for processing profiling data. Their work on a GMM scoring and DNN model suggests that they are working on the backend as well as the data science side.
visionassistantspeech-to-textspeech-recognitionpersonal-assistant
jhauswald/research-papers
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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