“Jaan is an exemplary unboss. Open. Very open! Let's the team chime in on big decisions. Acknowledges all contributions and seemingly without feeling any pressure to agree with everybody. (Mission) Driven. The purpose of Useful Science is unambiguous and easy to relate to - not to mention easy to fall in love with. Quick. Not only in mind, but also in ceasing opportunities and acting on new knowledge. Any co-worker, employer, employee, student or client will be in safe hands with Jaan.”
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Education
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Princeton University
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Activities and Societies: Resident Graduate Student at Wilson College
Advisors: David Blei and Shivaji Sondhi; work completed at the Departments of Computer Science & Statistics at Columbia University, with a focus on machine learning and publications at the top AI & machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, EMNLP, etc).
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Activities and Societies: Mentor with McGill's First-Year Buddy program, McGill Choral Society, Montreal Estonian Society
Dean's Honour List
Volunteer Experience
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Mentor
The TEAK Fellowship
- 3 years 1 month
Education
I mentor under-represented and disadvantaged middle school, high school, and college students and teach them to feel empowered in asking for support, negotiating for what they want in large systems, and learn emotional resilience skills such as those on interactionprinciples.org.
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Founder, Board Member
Useful Science
- 4 years 2 months
Education
I wanted to see what it was like to build a team, in order to prepare me for future ventures. But I didn't want to take on the stress of doing a startup. So I built this not-for-profit and scaled the volunteer base to 100+ high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees who communicated to our audience of 20k+ subscribers while gaining valuable science communication skills.
Heck, I even appeared on CBC's Dragon Den in Canada and won "$50,000" on the show, but not in real…I wanted to see what it was like to build a team, in order to prepare me for future ventures. But I didn't want to take on the stress of doing a startup. So I built this not-for-profit and scaled the volunteer base to 100+ high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees who communicated to our audience of 20k+ subscribers while gaining valuable science communication skills.
Heck, I even appeared on CBC's Dragon Den in Canada and won "$50,000" on the show, but not in real life (the offer they make you on the show is for show, and not legally valid as I learned!).
Projects
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Generative AI open source project
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Honors & Awards
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NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ranked 3rd of 204 candidates. $63,000 in support of graduate studies.
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Moyse Travelling Scholarship
McGill University
$8,800 in support of graduate studies. Two one-year scholarships are awarded annually through McGill University (one scholarship awarded by the Faculty of Arts and the other by the Faculty of Science).
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Delta Upsilon Memorial Scholarship
McGill University
$5,000 in support of graduate studies.
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Julie Payette-NSERC Research Scholarship
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"Julie Payette-NSERC Research Scholarships are the most prestigious Postgraduate Scholarships offered to 24 of the top-ranked CGS/PGS M candidates across Canada. Winners must not only display a first-class academic average, but should also demonstrate outstanding research ability and potential, excellent leadership skills and a broad range of outside interests."
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Estonian
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Full professional proficiency
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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Mandarin
Elementary proficiency
Recommendations received
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