Meet the team
In people-driven domains, AI/ML must work with people; and to work with people effectively, AI/ML must work like people.
Baxter Eaves, PhD
CoFounder & CEO
Baxter is a US Navy veteran and holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Louisville, where he developed computational models of human trust and social learning. He brings 12 years of experience deploying human-inspired AI tech to solving seemingly impossible problems in high-risk industries.
Patrick Shafto, PhD
CoFounder & CSO
Patrick is the Henry Rutgers Term Chair in Data Sciences at Rutgers University - Newark. He has led a number of projects for agencies including DARPA, DOD, and NSF, and his publications have appeared in top journals of machine and human learning.
Michael Schmidt
Principal ML Engineer
Michael has 14 years of research and engineering experience. He has built production models for healthcare, agronomy, finance, and law; and has conducted research in the areas of high-energy physics, differential geometry, plasma physics, and high-performance computing.
Ken Swanson
Data Engineer
Ken is a veteran engineer with a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis and over 20 years of experience in fields from genetic sequencing to agricultural data science. He has extensive expertise in building and running complex systems to solve difficult problems.