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Jean Billa

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Machine Learning Engineer at Reducto
📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Jean is an Applied Scientist at Reducto, a venture-backed AI startup. He is also a student at MIT studying Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. During an internship at Microsoft Research, he co-authored a paper on a novel approach to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) prompts.

Originally from Burkina Faso, Jean is passionate about creating ethical technology to positively impact humanity. His goal is to build interpretable AI systems that augment human potential. Outside of tech, he holds an interest in historical fiction and musicals.

His interest in AI began at age nine, inspired by the character JARVIS in the movie "Iron Man".

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Job Level
Junior
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Interpretable AI
His research interest is focused on understanding opaque models and building interpretable AI systems to foster trust and human-AI collaboration.
Large Language Models
Was the first author on the "Supervisory Prompt Training" paper, a novel approach for improving LLM performance, based on his work at Microsoft Research.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Reducto
9-2023 - 7-2025
Student Researcher
MIT Media Lab
6-2024 - 8-2024
Software Engineer Intern
Stripe
1-2024 - 2-2024
Software Engineer Intern
Scaled Cognition
6-2023 - 9-2023
Applied Scientist Intern
Microsoft
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Education
8-2021 - 5-2025
Bachelor's degree
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017 - 2021
High School Diploma
International School of Ouagadougou
2020 - 2020
Artificial Intelligence
InspiritAI
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