Geek of the Week: Trupanion's David Jaw uses machine learning to help facilitate better pet care

Plenty of people have a pet project that they are drawn to or consider themselves particularly good at. As the leader of the data science department at Trupanion in Seattle, David Jaw's projects are actually around pets. Jaw, GeekWire's latest Geek of the Week, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help automate medical insurance claims for pets, streamlining the process and removing the worry about what's covered and what's not. Born and raised in a suburb near Toronto, Jaw's family moved to Albuquerque, N.M., when he was 13 years old. He stayed there through college, where he studied mechanical engineering, pursuing a childhood dream of designing airplanes and spaceships.