Timothy Chklovski
Managing Partner at Prediction Machine LLC
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Chklovski is a managing partner and quantitative investor with a 14-year track record building and commercializing large-scale ML and text-understanding systems. An MIT PhD, IMO medalist, Goldwater Scholar and NSF Fellow, he has combined deep academic research (USC/ISI, MIT) with startup leadership as a founder/CTO and chief scientist at ventures like aQuery and Factual, and later as a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter driving ML for ad relevance. He now applies those same quantitative, algorithmic instincts to find market inefficiencies through Prediction Machine and Prepared Mind Advisers. Known for designing efficient, production-ready algorithms for text extraction and knowledge acquisition, he blends product sensibility—designing engaging experiences for contributors—with hands-on engineering across languages, SQL and web stacks. An uncommon thread in his career is moving innovations from research prototypes to VC-funded product and revenue impact, bridging academic rigor and market-focused execution. Based in Redwood City, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with practical valuation and investment experience.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), PhD Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Blake School239
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Github Skills (79)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
predictionmachine/pm-github-actions
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Repository for common GitHub Actions workflows for Prediction Machine
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 117 commits in 2 months
workflowspythonmachine-learningprediction
predictionmachine/pm-coding-template
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Documents and Illustrates Coding Standards used at Prediction Machine
Contributions:15 reviews, 86 commits, 28 PRs in 5 months
pythonpredictionstandardsdata-science
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