Severin Hacker

Severin Hacker
Born	1984 (age 33–34) Zug, Switzerland
Residence	United States
Known for	Duolingo
Scientific career
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor	Luis von Ahn

Severin Hacker (born 1984) is a Swiss computer scientist who is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.

Hacker was born and raised in Zug and studied at ETH Zurich. He moved to Pittsburgh to study at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded Duolingo with Luis von Ahn in 2009.