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Bio

Kellin Pelrine is Cofounder and CTO of startup Stitch. He’s a PhD candidate at McGill University and the Mila AI Institute, supervised by Reihaneh Rabbany. He’s also a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, research advisor at FAR AI. Previously he cofounded Mutual and Machine Learning Sports, and before that he completed a master’s in economics at Yale University and a master’s in applied mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Pelrine leads teams of over 40 collaborators hoping to create practical, transformatively impactful machine learning systems. To do that, he focuses on not only new methods but more realistic data, more comprehensive experiments, and deeper understanding. He has worked on diverse applications such as AI safety, education, misinformation and manipulation, political polarization, human trafficking, education, adversarial robustness, and temporal graphs. As CTO of Stitch, he leads work building a visual interface for LMMs. His research has been cited in the US Senate and published in top venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, and WebConf. It has also been supported by multiple awards and fellowships, including a Doctoral Training Scholarship from Fonds de Recherche du Québec, a Doctoral Excellence Scholarship from IVADO, and 8 awards and fellowships from McGill University.

In free time, he is also an avid player and teacher of the board game Go. He has twice been a US representative in international events, including the World Mind Sports Games. He has been called the man who beat the machine, as reported in media outlets such as the Financial Times.

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