Jacob Marks is a Senior ML Engineer and Researcher at Voxel51, where he leads open-source efforts in vector search, semantic search and generative AI for the FiftyOne data-centric AI tool kit. Prior to joining Voxel51, Jacob worked at Google X (now X Development, doing business as X), Samsung Research and Wolfram Research. In a past life, he was a theoretical physicist: in 2022 he completed his PhD at Stanford, where he investigated quantum phases of matter.