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Pradeep Ravikumar is a professor at CMU and the founder of Wood Wide. He’s also the co-editor in chief of JMLR. If you’d like to reach out, please email him at pradeepr@cs.cmu.edu.​​ 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/acad...

Tengyu Ma is an assistant professor at Stanford’s CS Department and the co-founder and CEO of Voyage AI. He’s now the Chief AI Scientist at MongoDB. If you’d like to reach out, please email him at tengyuma@stanford.edu.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people toget...

Zico Kolter is the director of CMU's ML Department (ml.cmu.edu), and is on the board for OpenAI. He's also the co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor of Gray Swan AI, and is a Chief Expert at Robert Bosch. He mainly focuses on improving the safety and robustness of ML models, including applications like LLM security and better understanding the relationship between training data and result...

Pranav Reddy is a partner at Conviction (conviction.com), where he invests in AI-native companies, and serves on the board of HeyGen, an AI-based video generation company. Before that, he was a founding engineer and later, an engineering manager at Neeva, which was acquired by Snowflake. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at pranav@conviction.com.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.o...

Nikhil Thota was the 2nd Engineer to join Perplexity, one of the world's leading AI search companies. Before that, he worked at Facebook and WhatsApp. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at nikhil@perplexity.ai.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great peo...

Dan Fu is currently a distinguished research scientist at Together AI and an incoming assistant professor at UCSD. He graduated with his PhD at Stanford, advised by Chris Ré and Kayvon Fatahalian. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at danfu@ucsd.edu. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host t...

Tianqi is an assistant professor at CMU in the CS and ML departments, and a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA. Before being at NVIDIA, he was the chief technologist at OctoAI, which was acquired by NVIDIA. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at tqchen@cmu.edu.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. T...

Graham is the Chief Scientist at All Hands AI (all-hands.dev), where he works on creating the most effective open-source agents for developers. He's also an associate professor at CMU's School of Computer Science, where he works on NLP research within the Language Technologies Institute. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at gneubig@cs.cmu.edu.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitu...

Stephanie is a general partner at Sequoia Capital (sequoiacap.com), where she invests in companies across AI Infrastructure, AI Apps, Robotics, and more. If you'd like to reach out, please email her at szhan@sequoiacap.com.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great peop...

Rak is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures (bcv.com), where he invests in companies across AI Infrastructure, AI Apps, and Security. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at rgarg@baincapital.com.​​ 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 podcas...