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Nathan Norfleet Eagle is a serial founder, ML/AI researcher, and advocate for AI for social good. He is dedicated to harnessing the power of technology to create a more equitable and prosperous world for all.
Currently, Eagle is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aerie Ventures, a holding company for several ongoing artificial intelligence projects leveraging large language models for societal betterment. Key initiatives include:
- Granted AI: A platform making grant proposal writing less tedious, more equitable, and more successful for everyone using natural language processing and machine learning techniques.
- Covid Capital: An epidemiological research-based hedge fund that incorporated scientific knowledge about the dynamics of airborne pathogen dissemination into non-parametric derivative pricing models. A portion of the returns were donated to foster future pandemic preparedness.
Previously, Eagle served as the CEO of Jana for twelve years, raising $100 million to scale the company into the largest provider of free internet in emerging markets. With operations in over 100 countries, Jana reached 50 million users, providing affordable access to the internet.
Eagle's academic career includes roles as a Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computational Epidemiology at Harvard University, and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Nairobi. He co-founded (with Eric Horvitz) the AAAI Artificial Intelligence for Development initiative, uniting AI researchers across Africa, Asia, and South America.
His research has had significant impact, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Science and Nature, accumulating more than 15,000 citations. Eagle's book, "Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World" (MIT Press), won the American Publishers PROSE Award.
Eagle's achievements have been widely recognized. He was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, one of the '50 people who will change the world' by Wired magazine, and elected to Advertising Age's 40 under 40 and MIT's TR35. He was awarded the prestigious Kiel Global Economy Prize alongside Daniel Kahneman and was a finalist for the MacArthur Genius Grant.
Eagle holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and two master's degrees in Management Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory founded the field of 'Reality Mining' and was declared one of the '10 technologies most likely to change the way we live' by the MIT Technology Review.
A lifelong meditator, Eagle was ordained as a monk in the Wat Ram Poeng temple in northern Thailand. He believes AI is poised to become the most rapid prosperity accelerator in human history and is committed to ensuring its benefits reach underserved communities worldwide.