Biography
Jack Cook is a M.Eng student at MIT from New York City who recently graduated with a major in computer science and a minor in brain and cognitive sciences. He is currently working as an R&D Engineer at The New York Times, where he built a system that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions from readers about breaking news in real time.
As an undergraduate at MIT, Jack was the lead author on “There’s Always a Bigger Fish,” a research paper from Mengjia Yan’s lab that demonstrates how machine learning can be weaponized to extract sensitive information from applications such as your web browser. His work on this project won him MIT’s 2022 Robert M. Fano Undergraduate Research Award. Jack was also director of HackMIT, MIT’s annual 1000-person hackathon, for two years.
Jack was also formerly on the founding team of Mixer, a startup focusing on low-latency live-streaming that was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. In his spare time, Jack loves to read, hike, and play with his two dogs.