Bhairav Mehta
Co-Founder, CEO at CharacterQuilt
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBhairav Mehta is a founder-CEO and machine learning scientist with 11 years of experience building AI-first B2B products from research prototypes to YC-backed startups. After MS work at Mila and a PhD stint at MIT EECS (on leave), he led deep-learning and robotics projects at NVIDIA, NASA JPL, and academic labs before founding buzzle.ai and now CharacterQuilt, which predicts prospect pain points via AI personas. He combines rigorous research pedigree—peer-reviewed models and reinforcement learning expertise—with hands-on go-to-market work, including SDR field research to validate product-market fit. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable switching hats between model design, product strategy, and customer discovery, and has a track record of turning call transcripts and market signals into actionable growth insights. An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex ML methods into pragmatic VOC tooling that nontechnical teams actually use.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteY CombinatorDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Mathematics at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (135)
unreal-engine-410
python10
simulator10
deep-learning10
ros10
openai-gym10
python-bot10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorflow10
jupyter-notebook10
imitation-learning10
machine-learning10
robot10
self-driving-car10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duckietown/aido-on-sagemaker
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
Running and training AIDO entries with AWS Sagemaker
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 11 months
awssagemaker
duckietown/sim-duckiebot-lanefollowing-demo
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Lane Following Demo in the gym-duckietown Simulator
Contributions:65 commits, 10 PRs, 47 pushes in 10 months
followingsimulationlanesimulatorduckietown
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