John Dickerson
CEO at University of Maryland
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Dickerson is a leader at the intersection of machine learning and market design, currently CEO of Mozilla.ai and previously co-founder and Chief Scientist of Arthur, a Series B startup building enterprise trusted-AI systems. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a decade-plus as a tenured professor at the University of Maryland, he has led a lab that applied ML and economic incentives to real-world platforms—from organ and blood donation to advertising, rideshare, and hiring marketplaces. His published work spans dynamic market design, robust and interpretable ML, fairness, privacy, and value alignment, and he has secured and managed $10M+ in research funding. A practitioner as well as an academic, he has built commercial optimization systems and advised startups and government market intelligence products. John combines deep theoretic grounding with product-focused execution and is known for designing incentives that steer complex systems toward better participation. Based in Seattle, he also invests and advises early-stage companies, bringing a founder’s perspective to governance and platform trust.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of MarylandPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (15)
code-optimization10
ranking10
react9
optimization9
science9
computer-science8
python7
machine-learning7
jekyll6
data-science6
integer-programming4
solve3
mixed-integer-programming3
exchange2
gurobi1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JohnDickerson/website
Oct 2012 - Dec 2022
My academic website.
Contributions:149 commits, 71 pushes in 10 years 3 months
jekyll
JohnDickerson/KidneyExchange
Aug 2013 - Jul 2017
Kidney paired donation optimization code
Contributions:273 commits, 2 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years 11 months
optimizationkidneycode-optimization
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