Recurse ML

Jack Jackson

Jack Jackson is the CEO and co-founder of Recurse ML. He read for a DPhil (PhD) in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford, which he suspended to found Recurse ML. He met co-founder Armins Stepanjans at Entrepreneur First in London in September 2023. Jackson has given guest lectures at Oxford as part of its professional master's program and has spoken on the DexFactor Podcast about building a culture of excellence.

Founding Machine Learning Engineer (name undisclosed)

Joined Jack Jackson and Armins Stepanjans in early 2024 as the third member of the team. Described working 'non-stop' on 'code that writes code,' building the core ML models that power the product. Full name not verifiable from public sources.

Armins Stepanjans

Armins Stepanjans (also known as Armin Bagrat Stepanyan) is the technical co-founder of Recurse ML. He earned an MPhil with Distinction from the University of Cambridge, where he built the first Graph Neural Network (GNN) for predicting edges in directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to create a multilingual model for prerequisite-learning paths. He holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Manchester. Prior to Recurse ML, he was a NLP Research Engineer at Boclips (edtech), where he was the second member of the data science team and built a video recommendation system. He has published academic research: 'Identifying and Explaining Discriminative Attributes' (EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong). He also served as Associate Lecturer in Fundamentals of AI at Anglia Ruskin University.