About

Jaan Altosaar, smiling in a floral shirt against blurred greenery.

I love designing interfaces that remain faithful to the technical nuances of a system, while delivering value to the humans who need to make decisions based on its outputs. This leverages the skills from my PhD in machine learning, my work across health systems and startups, and teaching experience.

In previous lives I have been a Visiting Professor at the same university as my great-grandfather Jaan; developed and delivered AI curricula for a bootcamp at Princeton; worked at Google & DeepMind during my PhD; and, raised $300k to build open source, nonprofit tools. I studied Maths and Physics at McGill and received my PhD from Princeton University working with David Blei and Shivaji Sondhi.

I’m Estonian-Canadian and outside of technics I love volleyball, ACT, music production, and Hanif Abdurraqib.