Summary
Abhinav Appidi is a founder and AI safety leader with 10 years of experience building scalable distributed platforms and ML systems for high-risk, regulated industries. As CEO of SuperAlign he focuses on governing and aligning AI models to organizational policies, turning research-grade methods into practical compliance tooling. He previously founded Aztlan and has hands-on research credentials from IIIT Hyderabad in medical imaging and machine translation, bridging academic rigor with product delivery. Active in industry stewardship, he chairs the AI Alignment Chapter at RIMAS and teaches AI ethics, reflecting a commitment to trustworthy deployment beyond pure engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines entrepreneurial grit with domain expertise in AI risk management and organizational alignment.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)