Max Kleiman-weiner
Assistant Professor at Google DeepMind
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMax Kleiman-Weiner is an assistant professor and researcher with 12 years of experience advancing human-aligned AI by reverse-engineering social intelligence. He has co-founded and led two AI startups—Diffeo (acquired by Salesforce) and Common Sense Machines, which raised over $10M to build 3D generative world models for autonomy, gaming, and design. Max bridges deep academic training (PhD in Cognitive Science/AI from MIT, MSc Oxford, BS Stanford) with product-focused research, moving ideas from labs to industry and investment as a scout for Sequoia. Currently at the University of Washington and affiliated with Google DeepMind, he blends theoretical work on social cognition with large-scale model development. His background in neurobiology and experimental psychology gives him an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective on building agents that understand people, not just optimize objectives. Colleagues describe him as a founder-researcher who consistently translates cognitive science insights into scalable, real-world AI systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence, PhD Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMSc Applied Statistics Experimental Psychology, MSc Applied Statistics Experimental Psychology at University of OxfordBS Biological Sciences Neurobiology, BS Biological Sciences Neurobiology at Stanford University
English, Chinese
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maxkw/website
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
TeamPurple/Cyber
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 1 day
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