Delta Podcast

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 original GPT paper.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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 [email protected] 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Michael Poli is the co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics. Before founding Radical Numerics, he was a founding scientist at Liquid AI and finished his PhD at Stanford's CS Department.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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Akari Asai is a researcher at AI2 and incoming assistant professor at CMU.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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Tyler Griggs is a PhD Student at Berkeley EECS and the creator of NovaSky.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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Andrej Risteski is an associate professor at CMU's ML Department.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Sanmi Koyejo is an assistant professor at Stanford's CS Department.​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ari Morcos is the CEO of Datology and a former staff researcher at FAIR. Before coming to FAIR, he was a researcher at DeepMind, and before that, he got his PhD from Harvard.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Shreya Shankar is a PhD student at Berkeley EECS, where she works on building reliable/efficient AI-powered data systems.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Sewon Min is an assistant professor at Berkeley AI Research, and a researcher at AI2. Before coming to Berkeley, she got her PhD at the University of Washington.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Amin Karbasi is the senior director of Cisco Foundation AI, and the former chief scientist at Robust Intelligence. Before that, he was a staff researcher at Google AI and a professor at Yale.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Aviral is an assistant professor at CMU's ML Department and a researcher at Google DeepMind. Before coming to CMU, he got his PhD at Berkeley EECS.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Jack Morris is a PhD Student at Cornell and a 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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Nicholas Boffi is an assistant professor in the ML Department at Carnegie Mellon. Before coming to CMU, Nicholas got his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ahmad Beirami recently left DeepMind, where he led research on the next generation of post-training solutions for Gemini and AI mode. Before coming to DeepMind, he was at Google Research.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Will Brown is a research lead at Prime Intellect and the creator of the Verifiers library. Before coming to Prime Intellect, Will was a researcher at Morgan Stanley. He got his PhD in CS at Columbia.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Nnamdi Iregbulem is a partner at Lightspeed. Before coming to Lightspeed, Nnamdi got his MBA from 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 tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Sharon Zhou is the VP of AI at AMD and the former CEO of Lamini. Before founding Lamini, she was a PhD student at Stanford's CS Department, co-advised by Stefano Ermon and Andrew Ng.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Rishabh Agarwal is a researcher and one of the founding members of Periodic Labs. He used to be a researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs, and before that, he worked at 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 their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Vivek is a research lead at Google DeepMind, and the creator of Med-PaLM and Med-Gemini. Before coming to Google, he worked at Facebook AI Research. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Stefano is an associate professor at Stanford's CS Department and the Co-Founder and CEO of Inception Labs. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Rohin Manvi is a PhD student at Berkeley AI Research and a researcher at Liquid AI. Before coming to Berkeley, he got his undergraduate and master's degrees at Stanford. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Songlin Yang is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL and the first-author of the flash linear attention library. She has first-authored papers that have been accepted to top conferences, including ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS. In addition to research, she helped organize the virtual seminar series and also helps lead the flash linear attention discord community. If you'd like to reach out, please email her at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Yifei Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL. He recently had 3 papers accepted to ICML 2025, including his paper, "Beyond Matryoshka: Revisiting Sparse Coding for Adaptive Representation", which was an oral paper. Before coming to MIT for his postdoc, Yifei got his undergraduate and PhD degrees at Peking University.​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Jaeyeon Kim is a PhD student at Harvard, studying Computer Science. He also first-authored the research paper titled "Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions", which was one of six papers that won the ICML 2025 Outstanding Paper Award out of 12,000 papers that were submitted to the conference. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 HP, and an assistant professor at UCLA. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 visiting researcher at Facebook AI Research. He also got a gold medal in the International Biology Olympiad. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 resulting models. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

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 [email protected].​​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 exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.