Justin Shenk
AI Safety Facilitator
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Shenk is an AI safety facilitator and interdisciplinary researcher with 10+ years building machine learning systems across neuroscience, computer vision, and startup product engineering. He co-founded VisioLab and open-source teams like Traja, led ML and infrastructure at companies from Intel to Simerse, and now focuses on mechanistic interpretability of LLMs while teaching AGI strategy and technical safety courses. Comfortable switching between hands-on model/edge deployments and strategic curriculum design, he has a rare blend of wet-lab neuroscience training (PhD) and production ML experience. Based in Berlin, he also organizes AI Salon Berlin to connect technical research with social values, reflecting his interest in the socio-technical systems that shape learning at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Neuroscience, PhD, Neuroscience at Radboud UniversityUniversity of Texas at San AntonioMS, Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science, MS, Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
548reputation
67kreached
15answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
sphinx-doc10
pruning10
facenet10
face-recognition10
neural-network10
data-science10
visualization10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
spatial10
eye-detection10
facial-expression-recognition10
autoencoder10
ml10
spatial-data-analysis10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JustinShenk/playground
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Play with neural networks!
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
deep-learningneural-networksmachine-learningneural-networktensorflow
justinshenk/wg-activator
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes in 11 months
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