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, 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.Timestamps:00:00 Why RL Doesnt Scale00:40 Founder Story Trajectory01:16 Continual Learning Vision02:33 Product Signal As Reward03:47 Roadmap Three Stages05:02 Self Distillation Explained07:17 Building The SDK09:21 Customer Onboarding Example11:43 Control Plane Improvements12:50 Competition And Infrastructure15:03 Research Meets Product17:35 Self Serve Vs Services19:55 Leaving Labs To Found24:10 Hiring And Team Culture27:45 Scaling To Enterprises

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 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.Timestamps:00:00 Mission and Evals Focus00:30 Founder Background02:55 Childhood Co-Founders04:49 Stanford to Industry Pivot07:32 Juniper Agents Experience08:55 Founding Judgment Labs11:14 Why Existing Tools Fail13:23 Deep Agent Observability Model15:56 JudgeEval Open Core Strategy18:56 Evals Advice and Pitfalls23:24 Production Grounded Evals24:12 Rubric Discovery Signals25:06 Benchmarks That Evolve26:24 Legal Redlines Case Study27:22 From Edits To Rubrics30:40 Monitoring First Strategy32:09 Self Improving Agent Loop34:12 Competitive Differentiation36:13 Deep Context Evals42:43 Future Data Intelligence45:19 Closing Thoughts

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 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.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:16 Google Brain Origins01:22 From GPT Roots to Gemini02:20 Why Build Elorian03:57 Anthropic vs Gemini Vision04:48 Measuring Multimodal Quality06:08 Defining Visual AGI07:57 Building the Multimodal Lab09:41 Reasoning in Visual Space11:46 What Makes Models Better15:57 Research Milestones and Benchmarks18:09 How to Think Architecturally21:55 Go To Market and Verticals27:13 Where Accuracy Matters Most29:15 Defending Against Churn30:40 Think Big Closing Thoughts

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, 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.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:26 Overview of the 1000 Layer Networks Paper00:42 Motivation and Background of the Research01:37 Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning Paradigm04:16 Challenges and Innovations in Data Scaling06:23 Hindsight Experience Replay and Its Impact08:56 Classification vs Regression in Reinforcement Learning12:25 Training Stability and Architectural Components14:23 Key Results and Performance Gains17:23 Qualitative Behaviors and Representation Learning19:44 Scaling Depth and Batch Size23:06 Limits of Scaling in Reinforcement Learning23:55 Exploring Actor Loss and Layer Depth in Training24:51 Scaling Layers for Complex Tasks28:28 Challenges and Innovations in Deep Network Training30:36 Future Directions in Reinforcement Learning37:32 Personal Journey and Career Path

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 starting Arcada, Grace studied CS at Harvard and spent some time at Apple.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.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:53 Founder's Background and Journey01:45 Startup Path and Early Experiences03:53 Pivoting to Game Engine Development06:03 Scaling and Expanding Arenas09:53 Building and Measuring Model Capabilities13:14 Agent Runner and Open Source Contributions14:33 Future Vision and Customer Focus18:56 Evaluating Next JS Models: Static vs. Live Benchmarks20:20 Challenges of Crowdsourced Benchmarks21:28 Understanding User and Researcher Needs23:23 Introduction to Prediction Arena24:30 Technical Implementation and Investor Skepticism26:45 Model Performance and Future Improvements31:28 Exploring Social Arena36:08 Company Culture and Future Goals37:54 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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.