Dan Klein
Co-Founder & CTO
Scaled Cognition
About
Dan Klein is a serial entrepreneur and professor of AI at UC Berkeley, where he has spent decades advancing the state of the art in natural language processing and intelligent systems. Many of his former students now lead AI teams at Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and other major research labs. Beyond academia, Dan has founded and scaled multiple successful startups. He co-founded adap.tv, an early pioneer in applying machine learning to advertising, which was acquired by AOL. He later co-founded Semantic Machines, where he led groundbreaking work in action-taking neural models and program synthesis before the company was acquired by Microsoft. Following the acquisition, Dan served as a Technical Fellow for AI at Microsoft, contributing to the company’s work on language interfaces and applied AI systems.
