Dr. Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Cleanlab, a company that empowers over 100 Fortune-500 companies by improving analytics and ML/LLM model performance through AI-driven data optimization. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT, where he invented Cleanlab’s core algorithms for detecting and resolving issues in datasets. Curtis has been recognized with the MIT Morris Levin Thesis Award, the NSF Fellowship, and the Goldwater Scholarship. He has also contributed to leading AI research efforts at organizations including Google, Oculus, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA.