Vivek Jayaram is an ML scientist and AI safety lead with 11 years of experience building production-grade computer vision and generative AI systems across startups, industry, and academia. He co-founded two startups—Fulltrack AI, which reached 4M active users and powered analytics for top cricket teams, and Vocality Health, which applied LLMs to medical language interpretation (YC W25)—and now leads AI safety at Sesame. His PhD research at the University of Washington produced multiple award-winning papers and publications at ICML, NeurIPS (oral), CVPR and others, spanning images, voice, and music. Prior roles include building sports analytics models for Second Spectrum and ML work at Google, demonstrating a track record of taking research into high-impact products. Based in Seattle, he combines deep academic rigor with operator experience scaling teams and revenue, and brings a rare blend of generative-model expertise and practical safety-first engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science with History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science with History at Harvard University
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Vivek Jayaram - ML Scientist, AI Safety Lead at Sesame