Ford Heilizer is an Emeritus Member of the Common Crawl Foundation. Ford is currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

He previously served as a Research Fellow at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, where he worked on machine learning for 3D scene segmentation, and as a Research Assistant at USC Marshall, where he studied the impact of partisanship on innovation using big data.

Ford is interested in training big neural networks on big datasets.