
Ep. 12: Ameet Talwalkar, CMU ML Professor and Datadog Chief Scientist
Ameet Talwalkar is an associate professor at CMU's ML Department and the Chief Scientist at Datadog. He's also been a venture partner at Amplify, the co-founder of Determined AI, which was acquired by...
14 Aug 202537min

Ep. 11: Yilun Du, Google DeepMind Senior Researcher
Yilun Du is an assistant professor at Harvard and a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before coming to Harvard, Yilun got his PhD in EECS at MIT, was a research fellow at OpenAI, and was a...
14 Aug 202531min

Ep. 10: Pradeep Ravikumar, CMU ML Professor
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 (d...
7 Aug 202530min

Ep. 9: Tengyu Ma, Stanford CS Professor and Voyage AI CEO
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 ten...
5 Aug 202535min

Ep. 8: Zico Kolter, OpenAI Board and CMU ML Director
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 B...
5 Aug 202529min

Ep. 7: Pranav Reddy, Conviction Partner
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 foundi...
5 Aug 202530min

Ep. 6: Nikhil Thota, Perplexity Early Engineer
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 n...
5 Aug 202523min

Ep. 5: Dan Fu, Together AI Distinguished Researcher
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 ...
5 Aug 202526min



















