Curtis Northcutt

Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and CEO & Co-Founder of Cleanlab, an AI software company that focuses on improving machine learning model performance by automatically fixing data and label issues in real-world datasets.12

Education and Achievements

Curtis completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he:

• Invented Cleanlab's algorithms for automatically finding and fixing label issues in datasets1
• Received the MIT Morris Levin Thesis Award3
• Amassed over 1,500 citations for his research2

Professional Experience

Before founding Cleanlab, Curtis gained experience working with several leading AI research groups, including:

• Google
• Oculus
• Amazon
• Facebook
• Microsoft
• NASA1

Cleanlab

As CEO and Co-Founder of Cleanlab, Curtis leads a company that:

• Provides enterprise-grade data curation solutions
• Improves the reliability of data-driven systems like LLMs, ML models, and analytics
• Works with various data types, including text, tabular, and image data2

Cleanlab's technology is based on confident learning, a sub-field of machine learning that Curtis invented during his PhD research.2

Recognition

Curtis and Cleanlab have received industry recognition:

• Featured in Forbes and CB Insights as an industry leader in AI
• Listed among the top 50 most innovative firms in AI and GenAI2

Curtis Northcutt's LinkedIn username is cgnorthcutt, as specified in the query.3