Vedant Misra
Reasoning at Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVedant Misra is an AI researcher and reasoning specialist with 14 years of experience building cutting-edge models and algorithms at DeepMind, OpenAI, and X (Moonshot Factory). He has worked on flagship projects including Gemini, Minerva, PaLM and PaLM 2, and has a track record of translating deep research into practical systems across industry and startups. As a founder-CEO turned researcher, he combines product intuition from Kemvi/HubSpot with rigorous theoretical training from years in astrophysics and cosmology at Columbia. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he advises startups and mentors at Alchemist Accelerator, bridging early-stage strategy with advanced ML capabilities. Colleagues describe him succinctly on GitHub as “pretty good at computers,” reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on approach to complex reasoning problems. He’s equally comfortable leading algorithmic innovation and mentoring founders on bringing research-grade ML into real-world products.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Columbia University in the City of New York
Italian, Spanish, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
85reputation
5kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (54)
benchmark10
python10
convolution10
fundamental9
scipy9
gradient-descent9
numpy9
blas9
ndarray9
interpolation9
low-level9
mpi9
root-finding9
linear-algebra9
numerics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vedant/BIG-bench
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Beyond the Imitation Game collaborative benchmark for enormous language models
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
benchmarkcollaborativelanguage-modelsbeyond
minerva-demo/minerva-demo.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:18 commits in 28 days
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