Justin (“Goju”) Gottschlich is the founder, CEO, and chief scientist of Merly (http://merly.ai), a company aimed at redesigning the very fabric of software development using state-of-the-art machine programming (MP) systems. Goju has an adjunct position in Stanford’s computer science department, where he researches and teaches graduate-level MP and AI. Previously, he was a principal AI scientist and the founder & director of Machine Programming Research at Intel Labs and an adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He created his first start-up when he was 25, where he wrote millions of lines of C++ code and learned large scale software design. Goju has 45+ peer-reviewed publications, 100+ issued patents, with dozens pending. He and his collaborators’ MP research has been highlighted in venues like The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, and was recently highlighted in MIT Technology Review (January 2025) as one of the most disruptive AI software start-ups.