AI & machine learning research for health.
I’m based in Brooklyn and am a Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science. I do research & teach computer science courses on AI, machine learning, and data science.
Previously, I created the One Fact Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to help scale the work I have done in large language models for health care use cases. We raised $300k+ to reduce the price of health care using open source, collected data from 4,000+ hospitals, got IRB approved to train models on health records, and published visualizations of tens of millions of hospital prices here.
For my Ph.D., I was fortunate to be advised by David Blei and Shivaji Sondhi. My work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada I had fun working with Andriy Mnih at DeepMind, and Eugene Brevdo at Google Brain. Previously, I studied Maths and Physics at McGill and was an Officer of Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Find my CV at jaan.io/cv.
I’m Estonian-Canadian and outside of academia I love volleyball, meditation, music production, and George Saunders.
How can we use technology such as machine learning and AI to effect the most societal good? This is what motivates me. A decade ago, I am proud to have launched Useful Science with a group of friends – I hope you’ll find a study on there that improves your life. One fact can be all it takes to create change.
The best way to reach me is [email protected]. If you need more secure forms of communication, please register for a Protonmail account , access it over public wifi on a USB drive running a recent version of Ubuntu, over an open source virtual private network (VPN) like Mullvad, and send me an email with your Signal number (for additional security, compile the Signal application yourself on the bootable USB drive).
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