Jonathan Frankle is Chief Scientist (Neural Networks) at Databricks, where he leads the research team to efficiently train neural networks. He joined Databricks through its $1.3B acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding member. He earned his PhD at MIT, where he empirically studied how neural networks learn, including the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, which earned ICLR Best Paper status. He is also noted as a special guest AI/ML expert.