Mike Merrill
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Merrill is a behavioral data scientist and AI/NLP researcher with a decade of experience bridging mental-health-focused behavioral analytics and cutting-edge language model evaluation. After a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington and early work in ubiquitous and people-aware computing, he has held research and engineering roles at HealthRhythms, Apple, Google, and Stanford, and now contributes to Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff. His work focuses on rigorous evaluation of agents and translating behavioral signals into robust ML models, combining academic rigor with product-minded engineering. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare mix of clinical-oriented behavioral insight and hands-on NLP research, informed by postdoctoral work on agent evaluation under Ludwig Schmidt.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Information Science, Bachelor’s Degree Information Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (11)
multimodal8
anonymous8
foundation-models8
chatbot7
chatgpt6
open-science5
llama4
science4
proxy-server3
proxy3
python3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
behavioral-data/behavioral-data.github.io
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 75 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
behavioral-data/Homekit2020
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 673 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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