Delta Podcast

Ronak Malde is the CEO of Trajectory (trajectory.ai), where he's working on bringing continual learning to enterprises. Before Trajectory, he worked on research at DeepMind and trained the SWE-1 model at Windsurf. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together,...

Alex Shan is the CEO of Judgment Labs (judgmentlabs.ai), where he's working on building agent behavior monitoring infrastructure. Before Judgment, he worked at Juniper Networks and Stanford AI Lab. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that...

Andrew Dai is the co-founder and CEO of Elorian, a new visual reasoning research and product lab. Before Elorian, Andrew was a research director at DeepMind, where he was the Gemini data area co-lead, PaLM 2 pre-training lead, and GLaM MoE LLM co-lead. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical eve...

Kevin Wang is the first author of the NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper, titled "1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities". He's currently a researcher at OpenAI, where he works on RL/reasoning. Before coming to OpenAI, Kevin studied CS at Princeton. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers,...

Grace Li is the co-founder of Arcada Labs (arcada.dev), creators of Design Arena, Prediction Arena, and Social Arena. Arcada's vision is to build portals that bridge AI to the real world by building real-world evaluations for things that are often hard to benchmark, like design, ability to make money in prediction markets, and ability to write posts that do well on social media. Before startin...

Karthik Narasimhan is an associate professor at Princeton's CS Department and the co-director of Princeton NLP. He's led numerous projects at the intersection of language and agents, including ReACT, Tree of Thoughts, SWE-Bench, SWE-Agent, WebShop, GEO, Tau-Bench, and more. He used to be the head of research at Sierra (currently valued at $10B+) and was one of the co-authors of the origina...

Michael is the CEO of Kinetic Systems and recently finished his CS PhD at Stanford, where he was advised by Nigam Shah and Chris Ré. Before coming to Stanford, Michael studied CS and Statistics at Harvard, where he worked on research at the Broad Institute. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technica...

Brian Zhan is a partner at Striker Venture Partners. He's invested in several leading research startups, including Periodic Labs, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, Voyage AI, and more. Before coming to venture, he was a product manager on the Facebook Presto team, then led product at Starburst Data. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at brian@striker.vc. Delta Institute (de...

Lakshya Agrawal is the lead author of GEPA and a PhD Student at Berkeley AI Research. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a research fellow at Microsoft. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to shar...

Kayo is a PhD Student at Berkeley AI Research, and an ACL Best Resource Paper winner. She has interned at Microsoft Research and Google DeepMind. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share thei...

Jeffrey is a CS PhD Student at Harvard, and the lead author of SWE-fficiency. Before coming to Harvard, Jeffrey worked at Citadel. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences,...

Alexi is a PhD student at UIUC CS, and the lead author of the Energy-Based Transformers paper. He's currently interning at Meta AI as a Research Scientist Intern, and interned at Palantir in the past. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast th...

Lisa is an EECS PhD student at Berkeley, where she focuses on researching how data shapes model behavior. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program t...

Rehaan Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of alphaXiv. Before alphaXiv, he studied CS at Stanford. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds...

Kexin Huang is a CS PhD student at Stanford and the lead author of Biomni. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit communi...

John Yang is a CS PhD student at Stanford, and the lead author of SWE-Bench and SWE-Agent. Before coming to Stanford, he did a thesis-based MSCS at Princeton, and before that, he studied EECS at Berkeley for undergrad. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together...

Div Garg is the CEO of AGI, Inc, and is currently on leave a CS PhD student at Stanford. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tigh...

Tanishq Abraham is the CEO of Sophont, where he's working on building medical foundation models. Before that, he was a research director at Stability AI. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform t...

David Stutz is a staff research scientist at DeepMind, where he works on medical agents and watermarking. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program t...

Shubho is the CTO of Axiom Math and a former researcher at Meta AI. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of e...

Alex Zhang is a 1st-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL and the creator of the recursive language model. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that bui...

Pim de Witte is the CEO of General Intuition, where he's working on exciting problems with large scale data and solving research problems across agents, video understanding, and world models. General Intuition has an extremely ambitious mission, and recently raised a $133.7 million seed round to support their vision. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engine...

Shawn Wang (aka Swyx) is the founder of the Latent Space podcast. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exc...

Devvrit Khatri is a 5th-year PhD student at UT Austin, studying CS. He recently interned at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he first-authored a paper titled "The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs", one of the first papers that conducts a deep analysis on scaling RL. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia...

Dylan Hadfield-Menell is an assistant professor at MIT CSAIL, where he works on research in alignment, Before coming to MIT, he got his PhD at Berkeley, where he was advised by Stuart Russell, Anca Dragan, and Pieter Abbeel. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people to...