Raj Agrawal
Cofounder at Traversal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaj Agrawal is a cofounder and AI-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and research-driven products from startups to academic labs. He holds a PhD in EECS from MIT and blends foundational research—work on generative and causal models for single-cell RNA-seq and probabilistic programming—with hands-on product engineering, currently building an AI SRE agent for the enterprise at Traversal. Raj has translated academic rigor into commercial impact as Chief Scientist and AI Lead at ArbiLex and as a research scientist contributing open-source tooling at Basis Research Institute. Based in New York, he bridges statistics, ML, and systems design, and is notable for moving complex generative models from theory into deployed workflows that accelerate scientific discovery and high-stakes decisioning.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
python9
machine-learning9
mailman9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
neural-network8
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
mbox7
listserv6
random-forest5
statistics5
causal-inference4
natural-language-processing3
nlp3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
agrawalraj/anova
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rajisme/deeplearning
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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