About

My name is Jordan Madison, a Computer Science graduate from Georgia Tech, where I focused on Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Intelligence, based in Atlanta, Georgia. After stepping away from university for personal reasons, I returned to finish and graduated in May 2026. My path has been non-traditional, spanning a myriad of areas — product, security, and AI research — a range I've come to treat as a force multiplier rather than a detour. The constant through all of it is people: ever since I was little, my goal has been to impact billions of people on Earth.

Back in 2024, before I re-enrolled at Georgia Tech after a multi-year break, I was watching the "Investigating Cyber Pirates" episode of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. In the episode, Mariana covered a wide spectrum of the digital underworld. The main part of the episode that stood out to me was the identity theft portion, where criminals were stealing innocent people's identities and permanently harming their lives. Shortly after this episode, a friend of mine almost had their bank accounts drained by a phishing scam due to adversaries taking advantage of financial burden and the emotional instability of the job market. Across both of these stories, I realized that many innocent people are and will continue to be hurt by adversaries they will never see or understand. So, I let this feeling guide me back to school and finish what I started.

Adversaries exploit weaknesses in digital, physical, and social systems to cause harm. I'm driven by identifying these patterns and building solutions to prevent those harms from spreading. My intelligence coursework has enabled me to model behavior computationally, while my cybersecurity coursework has empowered me to think like an adversary. In concert with my professional and leadership experience, I can do what I've always wanted: save lives at scale.

Over the past year, post-training language models for materials science has taught me a lot about applied AI in hard domains. The real world's signal is rich and waiting to be captured — and discovering ways to craft rewards and automated systems for chaotic environments is a grand challenge I want to dive deeper into. I want to be somewhere I can synthesize real customer use cases into a reward signal: building systems that capture unrealized value and empower organizations to do more. That's the throughline I'm chasing — designing the post-training setups that uplift organizations and unlock the value already inside them.