Amir Khosrowshahi
Co-Founder And CTO at Topos Bio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Khosrowshahi is a serial founder and technology executive with 11 years in engineering leadership and a deep foundation in computational neuroscience and physics. He co-founded Nervana (deep learning hardware/software), led its integration into Intel, and served as Intel’s Vice President and CTO of the AI Components Research group before co-founding Topos Bio to apply computation to drug discovery targeting disordered proteins. Comfortable moving between research and product, he blends PhD-level technical rigor with operator experience shipping hardware, software, and scientific platforms at scale. Based in San Francisco, Amir pairs entrepreneurial grit with a rare cross-disciplinary perspective spanning quantitative finance, neuroscience, AI infrastructure, and biopharma.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD computational neuroscience, PhD computational neuroscience at University of California, BerkeleyAB physics and math AM physics, AB physics and math AM physics at Harvard University
Github Skills (22)
assembler9
maxwell8
nvidia8
architecture7
gpu6
hardware5
benchmarking5
intel5
benchmark5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
tensorflow3
cuda3
san3
diego2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mrgloom/nervana-lib-gpu-performance-preview
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
cudagpuconvolutionalconvolutional-networkskernels
NervanaSystems/nervana-lib-gpu-performance-preview
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 11 days
cudagpuconvolutionalconvolutional-networkskernels
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