Rui Aguiar
Founder, CEO at Cosmon
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Aguiar is a founder and CEO with nine years of engineering and startup experience, currently leading Cosmon to build an AI toolchain that accelerates hardware engineers’ design, simulation, and PLM workflows by orders of magnitude. He combines deep AI expertise from Stanford (MS in AI) and research with hands-on product and engineering leadership—previously cofounding and scaling Expedock from a dorm-room startup to millions in revenue and enterprise logistics customers. Rui has shipped core systems and compiler-level features at Rockset, worked on ML for healthcare in Andrew Ng’s lab, and repeatedly shows a pattern of turning research and prototypes into production-grade products. He’s an active early-stage investor and advisor who’s helped multiple startups grow from first checks to nine-figure outcomes, reflecting both technical judgment and commercial instinct. Based in Palo Alto, he blends systems-level engineering, applied ML, and founder grit to tackle the intersection of AI and physical-product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Github Skills (200)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
pandas10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raguiar2/haiku_generation
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 2 months
raguiar2/cs41_project
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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