Declan Jones is Co-founder and Chief Data Officer of Prolific Machines, the biotechnology innovator using light to unlock unprecedented cellular control. Prolific harnesses light to produce everyday essentials more efficiently — from food and lifesaving drugs to novel biosolutions. Prolific is enabling innovators across therapeutics and advanced nutrition to unlock robust efficiency, quality, scalability, and sustainability advantages.

Prior to co-founding Prolific Machines, Declan worked as a machine learning (ML) engineer for the Zillow Group, conceiving, building, and improving RentalBrain, the centralized rental fraud prediction model used across all Zillow Group brands. Declan has deep expertise in full-stack data and ML engineering. Declan received his Bachelor’s in history and computer science at UC Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he focused on Computer Graphics, built a ray-tracer from scratch, and became a specialist in image processing.