Jonathan Stray
Senior Scientist at Center for Human-Compatible AI
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Stray is a Senior Scientist at UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI with two decades of cross-disciplinary experience spanning responsible AI research, investigative data journalism, and teaching. He specializes in recommender systems, misinformation, and the social effects of AI, combining deep technical skills in NLP, deep learning, image processing, and visualization with a journalist’s instincts for narrative and evidence. His work has produced open-source tools for large-document analysis (Overview) and newsroom data workflows, and he has led research on well-being metrics for recommender systems and deepfake detection. A former investigative reporter for ProPublica and the Associated Press and a longtime instructor in computational journalism at Columbia, he brings rare domain expertise at the intersection of public discourse and algorithmic design.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of TorontoThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Stackoverflow
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6questions
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Github Skills (173)
notebook10
python10
reactjs-components10
form-data10
data-journalism10
pandas10
dms10
react-component10
data-visualization10
traversal10
data-science10
twitter-api10
grid-layout10
todomvc10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
overview/docs2csv
Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
csvscansuitable
jstray/shape-of-randomness
Jun 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
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