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Toby Conitzer was born in Germany, studied cultural studies as an undergraduate student.

Eventually, he went to Duke to get a PhD in political science.

And that eventually changed to become a PhD in computational social science at Stanford, which is basically writing code to answer social science questions.

After graduating in 2017, he joined Facebook Research for a year, then founded two AI startups.

But outside of tech, he has two young daughters who he likes to spend time with and take to the park.

He used to be an avid trail runner, but his favorite thing to do is think, and do so as often as possible.

For the last 10 years of his career, Toby has been chasing optimized decisioning and outcomes using AI.