Dan Klein

Co-Founder and CTO at Scaled Cognition

Berkeley, California, United States

Overview

Dan Klein is a serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Scaled Cognition, and an AI Professor at UC Berkeley. With a Ph. D. from Stanford, he is a leading researcher in Natural Language Processing, focusing on building reliable, policy-aligned AI systems. His career includes co-founding companies like Adap. tv and Semantic Machines, later acquired by AOL and Microsoft respectively.

While publicly available information centers on his extensive professional and academic achievements in computer science, details about his personal hobbies or non-work-related activities are not specified. His work demonstrates a deep commitment to advancing AI technology from foundational research to practical, large-scale application.

An interesting fact: his work is not just theoretical; he led a team that developed a StarCraft agent, "The Overmind, " which won the AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI competition.

Topics They Care About

Agentic AI
His latest venture, Scaled Cognition, focuses on creating AI that reliably takes policy-aligned actions in enterprise workflows, moving beyond simple language prediction.
Natural Language Processing
This is his core academic and professional expertise, with research in machine translation, information extraction, and unsupervised language acquisition at UC Berkeley.
AI Entrepreneurship
He has repeatedly commercialized his research by co-founding successful startups like Adap. tv, Semantic Machines, and Scaled Cognition, which were acquired by major tech companies.

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Work History

2-2023
Co-Founder and CTO at Scaled Cognition
8-2004
Professor at University of California, Berkeley
6-2018 - 11-2022
Technical Fellow at Microsoft
11-2014 - 5-2018
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist, and VP Research at Semantic Machines
11-2006 - 7-2013
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Adap.tv

Education

1999 - 2004
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Stanford University
1998 - 1999
Master’s Degree from University of Oxford

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