George Altshuler
I recently graduated from Stanford University, currently do Data Science at Harvard Medical School, and created the hot sauce that made Jennifer Lawrence cry.
An entrepreneur at heart, I spun my love for flavor (and professional background in food science) into a hot sauce company while in college. (You may have seen my sauces on Hot Ones or the shelves of Erewhon.)
In the classroom, I primarily studied ancient languages and linguistics, which introduced me to NLP, AI, and Data Science (what I do now at Harvard Medical School).
I'm particularly passionate about linguistics, language learning, entrepreneurship, generative AI, music, psychology, and design.
Stanford University
Awards and Honors
- Sterling Award (2024)
- Departmental Senior Award (2024)
- Phi Beta Kappa (2023 — elected junior year)
- Departmental Junior Award (2023)
Coursework
Data Science, Computer Science, Psychology, Survey Design, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous Languages.
Teaching Experience
DATASCI 112: Principles of Data Science. Taught Machine Learning/AI, data processing, visualization, & analysis using Python.
CLASSICS 1g, 2g, & 3g: First-year Ancient Greek. Taught grammar, syntax, morphology, and historical linguistics of Ancient Greek.
Current Projects
Current Projects
Hauyu
Cantonese is considered to be among the hardest languages for English speakers to learn due to its linguistic dissimilarities and incredibly complex writing system.
As a passionate learner of Cantonese with the goal of conversational fluency, I wanted to focus all my efforts on the spoken language, rather than memorizing characters.
Since resources for learning Cantonese are sparse and no product existed that matched my learning style, I chose to code it up myself.
Alchemy Peppers
Towards the end of high school, I worked as a food scientist specializing in extracts and olfaction. I always had a particular interest in peppers because of their split personality (being simultaneously delicious and deadly).
Enchanted by the prospect of highlighting the deliciousness, I launched a line of hot sauces that ended up on the shelves of Erewhon and in the lineup for Season 21 of Hot Ones—Jennifer Lawrence, Gal Gadot, Jason Sudeikis, Melissa McCarthy and many more have all had my sauce!
