Nitzberg CHAI people page (web)
Citation
Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI), UC Berkeley. “People.” People page, date not stated. https://humancompatible.ai/people/. Read 2026-11-06.
Bottom line
- Mark Nitzberg is Executive Director of CHAI and Head of Strategic Outreach for Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).
- He wrote his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1991. He was founding CEO of The Blindsight Corporation and later Director of Computer Vision Products at A9/Amazon.
Background
The people page of a UC Berkeley research center. It lists each person with a title and a short biography. This is a profile page. Mark Nitzberg’s entity page lists it; no reading list does.
Key claims
- “Executive Director of CHAI”; “Head of Strategic Outreach for Berkeley AI Research”. (Mark Nitzberg)
- “He began studying AI as a stowaway student at MIT in the early 1980’s and wrote his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Human Perception in 1991 under David Mumford at Harvard University.” (Mark Nitzberg)
- “Dr. Nitzberg has built companies and products in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, financial portfolio optimization, workflow efficiencies, online commerce, development aid data capture and analytics, and film and theatre.” (Mark Nitzberg)
- “Most recently he was the Director of Computer Vision Products at A9/Amazon following their acquisition of The Blindsight Corporation, a maker of assistive technologies for low vision and active aging, where Mark was founding CEO.” (Mark Nitzberg)
Evidence and method
A research center’s own people page.
Limits
- No dates for his roles, other than the year of his Ph.D.