Summary
Brad Hayes is a CTO and tenured associate professor based in Boulder, Colorado with 11 years of professional experience blending academic research and product-focused engineering. He leads teams at Circadence while directing research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder, translating frontier AI ideas into practical, deployable capabilities. His background spans a PhD from Yale and a postdoc at MIT, giving him deep technical credibility in AI and computer science alongside hands-on software engineering roots at BAE, Microsoft, and IBM. As an advisor to startups like BranchLab, he bridges academia, industry, and commercialization, often shepherding early research into real-world cyber and AI systems. Colleagues describe him as a builder who equally values rigorous research, scalable system design, and cultivating multidisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Mathematics, BS Computer Science Mathematics at Boston College
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Yale University