Andy J. is a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, where he focuses on Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models, and AI safety. His background includes machine learning roles in futures trading at GSA Capital and biomedical imagery analysis at Biosignatures. He holds a Master of Arts from The University of Edinburgh.
His personal interests include a period dedicated to "bathrobe AI research" and modernist cooking, indicating a passion for applying technical approaches to culinary arts. Andys career also includes a unique phase of self-schooling, where he taught himself software engineering and machine learning from home.
Unique fact: Andy humorously describes himself as holding the record for the "#1 most bugs written" at Anthropic.