Justin Weisz
Manager, Senior Research Scientist, & Strategy Lead, Human-Centered AI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Weisz is a human-centered AI leader and manager with nine years of experience at IBM, where he has built and led cross-disciplinary teams to define and execute research strategy around trustworthy, collaborative AI that amplifies the capabilities of software engineers, data scientists, and scientists. He combines a strong research pedigree (PhD and MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon) with hands-on engineering, having refactored and modularized notable open-source work such as IBM’s TJBot recipes to improve sentiment, speech-to-text, and conversational capabilities. Justin’s work spans HCI, explainability, fairness, and generative-model co-creation, and he has repeatedly moved from foundational research to product-facing solutions across domains from quantum and drones to mobile and wearable healthcare. Known for developing novel interaction paradigms and automation for data science, he also mentors researchers and engineers on career development and performance. Based in the New York City area, he prioritizes real-world professional connections and brings a rare mix of deep technical expertise, strategic leadership, and practical system-building experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
nodejs10
javascript10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
raspberry-pi8
prototyping8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ibmtjbot/tjbot
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
IBM TJBot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 10 reviews, 164 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on a major refactor of the repository. They added bootstrap and rewrote recipes to use tjbot-lib, including updating the README files. This involved significant code changes, particularly within the `recipes` directory, suggesting an effort to modularize and improve the project structure. The changes involved modifications in the sentiment analysis, speech to text, and conversation recipes, showcasing a broad understanding of the project's functionality.
tjbotstemraspberry-pioctoprint3d-printer
jweisz/tjbot-playground
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Swift Playground for interacting with TJBot
Contributions:9 releases, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
swiftplaygroundtjbot
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