Jake Rozran Resume

Summary

Co-founder and CEO of MyDD.ai, a COPPA-compliant, safe-by-design generative AI platform for children ages 6 to 17. Career built on trustworthy AI systems: cut month-over-month fraud losses 92% leading risk analytics at Xfinity Mobile, built a $1MM data science consulting practice in 12 months, and managed customer-facing machine learning teams at Comcast. Advisor to media executives on data and AI strategy through RLE Analytics; adjunct professor shaping how Villanova University teaches data science.

Experience

CEO & Co-Founder

MyDD.ai

Philadelphia, PA | Jul 2025–Present

Co-founded MyDD.ai with Dan Larson: a COPPA-compliant, safe-by-design generative AI platform for children ages 6 to 17.
Ran the KORA child safety benchmark against the platform, scoring 88.3% overall, a result independently cited on the KORA blog; co-authored a post on the results with the KORA team.
Designed a trajectory-aware safeguarding architecture that addresses multi-turn relational drift in child-AI conversations.
Own go-to-market strategy and positioning; set consumer pricing at $9.99 per month or $80 per year; ESA vendor registration in progress in Florida, Georgia, Utah, and Arizona.
Leading an active pre-seed raise; hired and manage an intern.
Led architecture and development of the full-stack platform, from secure parental onboarding through the chat product.

Adjunct Professor of Data Science & Statistics

Villanova University

Villanova, PA | Aug 2020–Present

Won the 2026 Pohlhaus-Stracciolini Award for Teaching Excellence.
Designed and delivered generative AI training for department faculty, shaping how the department builds courses around AI.
Elected to Faculty Congress, filling the At-Large Adjunct seat.
Design and teach undergraduate courses in Data Science, Introduction to Statistics, and Statistics for Biology.

Owner & Principal Consultant

RLE Analytics

Philadelphia, PA | Nov 2024–Present

Principal data science consultant to American City Business Journals, owning data strategy and analytics infrastructure across its markets.
Advise executive leadership on data and AI strategy as generative AI reshapes digital publishing.
Lead a team of data professionals delivering pipelines, predictive models, and business intelligence on audience, content, and revenue.

Prior Experience

Founder

ChatCivic.ai

Philadelphia, PA | Jan 2025–Jul 2025

Founded and built a generative AI platform that gave residents accurate, timely answers about their local municipalities; wound it down after determining the market was not viable.

Senior Manager of Data Science

Comcast

Philadelphia, PA | Jan 2023–Nov 2024

Managed a team of four data scientists responsible for customer-facing machine learning models that monitor and improve the reliability of Comcast's network.
Set priorities with organization leadership, product managers, and external partners while staying hands-on with modeling and analysis.

Data Science Practice Lead

CivicActions

Lafayette, CA | Feb 2021–Jan 2023

Founded the company's data science practice and grew it past $1MM in revenue within 12 months, owning sales, marketing, delivery, and hiring.
Led NLP and analytics work for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, automating the creation and evaluation of System Security Plans to speed the Authority to Operate process.

Solutions Consultant

Socure

New York, NY | Jan 2020–Feb 2021

Technical expert on fraud prevention, KYC, and model evaluation for the sales team; built proof-of-concept analyses demonstrating Socure's lift over prospects' incumbent solutions.

Manager of Data Analytics

Xfinity Mobile Risk Management (Comcast)

Philadelphia, PA | Mar 2017–Jan 2020

Invented and deployed a fraud decision tool that cut month-over-month fraud losses 92% in 2018.
Built and led the analytics and engineering team for credit and fraud risk, including hiring, training, and executive reporting.

Additional work experience is outlined on my LinkedIn Profile.

Writing & Speaking

Author, "Raising AI Literate Kids," a Substack newsletter on AI literacy for families.
Co-author, with the KORA team, "How Safe Is AI for Kids? We Tested MyDD.ai with KORA."
Speaker: M3AAWG; NY Tech Week 2026 founder showcase (AI Ops in Action, hosted by AI Networking Lab); Code & Coffee Philly.

Education

Master of Science, Applied Statistics

Villanova University

Villanova, PA | 2015–2017

Bachelor of Science, Business & Engineering

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA | 2004–2009

Selected Expertise

Safe-by-design AI: COPPA compliance, child safety benchmarking, trustworthy AI architecture

ML & data systems at scale: Python, R, SQL, Snowflake

Team & P&L leadership: hiring, coaching, go-to-market strategy