Samuel Klein
Co-Founder at Public AI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Klein is a founder and systems thinker with 11 years of experience building public-interest AI, distributed knowledge platforms, and infrastructure for open science. He co-founded Public AI and the Underlay Project to enable high-volume curation, provenance-rich indexing, and federated discovery of knowledge at every granularity. His work spans applied epistemology, equilibrium/dynamics-based system design for domains like housing and energy, and wearable interface engineering including exoskeleta and modular weight distribution. A mathematician and developer by training (Harvard physics background), he combines rigorous analytic instincts with hands-on product design and community-building across nonprofits and research initiatives. Samuel’s career traces early contributions to digital public goods—from Wikimedia governance to DPLA technical leadership—so he blends governance, technical architecture, and practical tooling to scale group cognition. Unusually, he couples century-scale forecasting with concrete protocol design, aiming to make knowledge universally and portably accessible.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at MITMath Languages, Math Languages at Bellaire High School & Rice UniversityBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Harvard University
Hebrew, German, Chinese, Spanish, French, texan, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
jitsi10
web-application10
video-conferencing10
debian10
scalable10
sfu10
webrtc10
jitsi-meet10
data-repository9
google-sheet9
corona8
virtuoso8
creative-commons8
datasets8
speech8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
underlay/underworld
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Docs, notes and resources that don't fit elsewhere.
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 3 years 2 months
plansproposalsproblemsdesignsunderlay
underlay/overview
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
The world’s distributed knowledge graph.
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
knowledgeknowledge-graphgraphdistributed
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