# Tim Novikoff

> Tim Novikoff is the founder and CEO of Super Teacher, an AI tutoring app for elementary students that has reached roughly 20,000 families and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii. A former NYC math teacher with a PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell, he co-authored a PNAS paper on the math of spaced repetition, built and sold the video-editing startup Fly Labs to Google in 2015, then worked on Google Photos and ran Google Colab before returning to education. As a kid he voiced Jeffy on MTV's animated series Daria.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Super Teacher Inc.
- **Organizations:** Super Teacher Inc., Fly Labs, Google, Cornell Tech, Stuyvesant High School
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, double major in Acting and Mathematics, New York University, M.Ed., Master's in Education (NYC Teaching Fellows), PhD, Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
- **Known for:** Built and sold Fly Labs to Google (2015), Fly app surpassed 1 million downloads and was named among Apple's and The Boston Globe's best apps of 2014, Co-authored peer-reviewed PNAS paper on the mathematics of spaced repetition and review scheduling

## Career timeline

- **mid-1990s** — Voiced the character Jeffy on MTV's animated series Daria as a child actor
- **2000s** — Taught mathematics for four years at Stuyvesant High School in NYC via the NYC Teaching Fellows program
- **2012** — Co-authored 'Education of a Model Student' in PNAS with Jon Kleinberg and Steven Strogatz, modeling optimal spaced-repetition review schedules
- **2013** — Earned PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University
- **2011-2014** — Founded Fly Labs at a Cornell startup event; launched the video app Fly (1M+ downloads, Apple best-of-2014)
- **2015** — Sold Fly Labs to Google
- **2015-2021** — Worked at Google on Photos (Memories and Editing) and managed the Google Colab developer tool
- **2022** — Co-founded Super Teacher with Krzysztof Kulewski in New York City
- **2025** — Super Teacher named a Startup Battlefield Top 20 finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025; reaches ~20,000 families and public schools in NY, NJ, and Hawaii

## Achievements

- Built and sold Fly Labs to Google (2015)
- Fly app surpassed 1 million downloads and was named among Apple's and The Boston Globe's best apps of 2014
- Co-authored peer-reviewed PNAS paper on the mathematics of spaced repetition and review scheduling
- Founded Super Teacher, reaching ~20,000 families and public schools across three states
- Super Teacher named Startup Battlefield Top 20 finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
- Taught computer science / iPhone app development courses at Cornell Tech for over a decade

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Super Teacher selected as a Startup Battlefield Top 20 finalist and demoed its AI tutor at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco.
- **2025-10** — Reported ~20,000 families using the app and adoption by public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii.

## Links

- Website: https://getsuperteacher.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timnovikoff

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Last updated: 2026-06-21