Bio
Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur focusing on using machine learning and artificial intelligence to empower people. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cleanlab used by 100+ of Fortune-500 companies to improve analytics and ML/LLM model performance using Cleanlab’s AI software to automatically improve the accuracy and dollar-value of every datapoint.
Curtis completed his PhD at MIT where he invented Cleanlab’s algorithms for automatically finding issues in most datasets. Curtis is the recipient of the MIT Morris Levin Thesis Award, the NSF Fellowship, and the Goldwater Scholarship and has worked at several leading AI research groups, including Google, Oculus, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA.
CEO of the Year 2025 
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Title to be awarded: World CEO of the Year 2025
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Title to be awarded: United States CEO of the Year 2025
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Title to be awarded: California CEO of the Year 2025
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Title to be awarded: San Francisco CEO of the Year 2025
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Performance Excellence Award 2026 
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Corporate Support Award 2026 
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People’s Choice Award 2025 
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