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Jonathan Dotan
Founding Director
Jonathan Dotan is the founding director of The Starling Lab where he leads applied research on AI, cryptography, and human rights. He is a fellow at the Stanford Compression Forum and Stanford’s Center for Blockchain Research, as well as an innovation fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation. He brings to Starling over 25 years of experience navigating the intersections of media, tech, and policy as a c-level tech executive, producer, and investor.
Jonathan lectures at Stanford’s School of Engineering and Graduate School of Business. His teaching asks students to consider the never-simple relationship between innovation and progress — recognizing how each new technology brings choices and responsibilities. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and received an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, St. Antony’s College.
Work at Starling Lab
We encourage practitioners, academics and technologists to work together to address complex problems and find opportunities at the intersections of media technology