Mark Nitzberg

Mark Nitzberg is the current Director at DMAI. Mark has held this position for 5 years and 6 months. Prior to this, they were the Head of Strategic Outreach at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research for 5 years and 5 months. Before that, they were the Co-Founder and Director at Akvo for 14 years.

Nitzberg began their career as the Director, Computer Vision Products at A9.com for 2 years and 4 months. Mark then became the Founding CEO of The Blindsight Corporation, which was acquired by Amazon. After 8 years at Amazon, Nitzberg became the Founding CTO and Director of Smartleaf, where they worked for 11 years. Mark then became the Founding CTO of RapidCare Inc., where they worked for 2 years. Finally, they became the Principal and VP of Marketing at Viaweb, Inc., where they worked for 2 years before taking their current position at DMAI.

Mark Nitzberg has a PhD from Harvard University in Computer Science, which they wrote on "Depth from Overlap" in Computer Vision and Human Perception. Mark also has a degree from the University of Oregon in Mathematics and Music Composition, and was a Clark Honors College graduate and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mark also spent a year as a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the EECS department, where they completed the core 6 curriculum in CS.