Will was one of the first engineers at Cresta building real-time AI products, after studying CS and physics at Harvard.

Jeff spent 3 years building data and web infra at Plaid after studying CS & Philosophy at Harvard, where he ran a GPU cluster in his dorm room.

Ben previously did quant trading at SIG after taking the hardest math course in the country at Harvard.

Hubert previously worked on projects like particle simulations and automated wheelchairs, after studying CS in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University.

Shreyas built projects ranging from training neural networks in Haskell to a game streaming engine, after studying CS at Waterloo.

Michael previously worked on ML and privacy at various companies, including Apple, after studying CS at Harvard University.

Felix built open source tools spanning next-gen text editors and knowledge management systems, after studying CS and philosophy at UIUC.

Stacey previously worked on business development at Awesomic, after earning her bachelors and masters in Kyiv.

Joshua studied CS at UChicago working on ML for 3D reconstruction, and now builds virtual worlds and massive datasets at Exa.

Ishan previously cofounded a text-to-video startup, and before that was a software engineer at Rephrase AI, which got acquired by Adobe.

Adriano skipped college and has been coding professionally for 12 years, most recently hacking equipment protocols on cargo ships.

Carlos did MLOps for years, building training infra for thousands of models across cloud and edge, after studying engineering in Portugal.

Gabriel founded Sofon, a graph-based people-ranking tool, and was a founding engineer at Diagonal, an API for crypto payments.

Tom studied CS at CMU implementing network protocols and compilers, after working at Google on highly optimized, global-scale services.

Felicia previously worked on Growth/Strategy at startups in search and climate tech, and prior to that did private equity at Blackstone.

Anca previously built AI search pipelines and databases at Primer.ai, after studying Computer Science at Princeton.

Liam previously worked as a software engineer at Numerai before becoming an artist and joining Exa to lead our R&D product team.

Sam studied CS at MIT and then researched efficient GNN architectures at the IBM Watson AI Lab.

Song spent two years before Exa learning how to illustrate and paint concept art, after studying Computer Engineering at University of Toronto.

Shyam founded Kapstan, a Kubernetes abstraction layer for container orchestration, after engineering at Apple and consulting at BCG.

Mark worked on video at Ameelio and Kino AI, and data materialization at Sigma Computing, after studying math and CS at Harvard.

Tyler studied math and CS at McGill University, where he scored Top 500 on the Putnam and was a Codeforces Candidate Master.

Linh previously worked in fintech on explainable ML models for credit underwriting, after studying Chemical Engineering at MIT.

Will studied Industrial Engineering at Michigan and Berkeley, previously a research engineer at SRI International.

Ben did a PhD at Cornell building some of the fastest distributed algorithms in the world, now taught at universities worldwide.

Rohit graduated in CS from NYU debugging kernel programs, after a coding journey that began at age 11 making games in C++.

Max spent 12.5 years at Google across Europe on finance, trust and safety, ML, information retrieval, and large language models.