Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur focusing on AI to empower people. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cleanlab, building next-generation data-centric AI and open-source technologies that enable AI to work with real-world, messy data. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT, where he invented confident learning to automatically find label issues in any dataset. Curtis received the MIT thesis award, NSF Fellowship, and Goldwater Scholarship for his work. Before Cleanlab, he worked in AI research teams at Google, Oculus, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA.