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 (169)
unreal-engine-410
python10
simulator10
gymnasium10
deep-learning10
ros10
optimization10
openai-gym10
python-bot10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
q-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorflow10
gateway10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
montrealrobotics/active-domainrand
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
Code repository for Active Domain Randomization (CoRL 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04762)
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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bhairavmehta95/option-critic
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 31 pushes in 27 days
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