Moshe Looks
Advisor at Balsa Research
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMoshe Looks is an experienced software leader and advisor with nine years of post-PhD industry experience shaping AI-driven products and teams from Palo Alto. He has founded and led multiple companies—most recently as Founder & CTO of Greater Human and earlier Apprente—focusing on voice AI, conversational agents, and AI-enabled self-development platforms. Moshe has held senior engineering and director roles at Google and McD Tech Labs and now contributes strategic guidance as Board Chair of Balsa Research and advisor to Root Signals and other startups. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on startup execution, often bridging research-grade algorithms to production systems. An under-the-radar strength is his pattern of moving between founding roles and advisory positions, indicating both product-building grit and the ability to scale others’ technical visions.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The Hebrew University of JerusalemDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (57)
dataflow9
filesystem9
python9
machine-learning9
mxnet9
unicode9
bayesian9
deep-learning9
floating-point9
mcmc9
bayesian-inference9
julia9
cpp9
rust8
cli8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moshelooks/grind
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 months
moshelooks/system
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
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