Patrick Shafto
Program Manager at Rutgers University - Newark
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Shafto is a Program Manager at DARPA and a professor of mathematics and computer science with 13 years of professional experience blending math, AI, and human behavior to advance trustworthy intelligent systems. He leads interdisciplinary programs that connect theoretical foundations in math and cognitive science with practical machine learning research, drawing on prior roles at MIT, the Institute for Advanced Study, and founding the startup Redpoll. His background—PhD in cognitive psychology and early training in physical therapy—gives him a rare perspective on human-centered AI and learning dynamics. Patrick’s work sits at the intersection of research and deployment, moving ideas from labs into programs that shape how AI is understood and improved.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, Physical Therapy, BS, MS, Physical Therapy at Northeastern University
Github Skills (7)
database-table10
querying10
bayesian9
statistics8
database7
databases7
sql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shafto/shafto.github.com
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:47 pushes, 11 branches in 9 years 2 months
probcomp/crosscat
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
A domain-general, Bayesian method for analyzing high-dimensional data tables
Contributions:27 commits in 5 months
analyzinghigh-dimensional-datastatisticsmethoddata-tables
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