Vig Sachidananda, PhD

Partner

Gradient Ventures · New York, New York / San Francisco Bay Area

Present

AI focused venture capital fund created and backed by Google. AI Infrastructure: - Lambda Labs (Series C) - CentML (Seed) - Density AI (Pre-seed) - Vijil (Seed) - Roe AI (Seed) - Cerebrium (Seed) - Anchor (Seed) - Linkup (Seed) - CTGT (Seed) - Cake AI (Seed) - Silverstream (Pre-seed) - Springtail (Pre-seed) + more in stealth Biology & Materials Science: - Kerna Labs (Seed) - Helical (Seed) - Cambrium Bio (Seed) + more in stealth AI Applications: - Pathfinder (Pre-seed) - Ditto (Pre-seed) - Jitty (Seed) - Syrup (Series A) - Niva (Seed) - Fileread (Seed) - Redactable (Seed) - Humata (Seed) + more in stealth

Graduate Researcher

Stanford University · Stanford, CA

Research in AI/ML (RL, optimization, control) with applications to distributed systems.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Stanford University · Stanford, CA

Artificial Intelligence (CS221)

Founding Engineer

Clockwork Systems, Inc. · Palo Alto, CA

Distributed systems startup spun out of Stanford. Leave of absence during my PhD, joined during pre-seed stage. Clockwork has since raised Series A financing.

Ai/Ml Researcher

Microsoft · Sunnyvale, CA

Machine learning research and development for optimizing resources in Azure.

Founding Engineer

Celect, Inc. · Greater Boston Area

Acquired by Nike in 2019. Artificial Intelligence startup spun out of MIT. I joined during pre-seed stage as one of the first 3 employees.

Summer Analyst

Goldman Sachs

Teaching Fellow

University of Maryland · College Park, MD

Thermodynamics, Engineering Dynamics, and Engineering Statics

Program Manager Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Greenbelt, MD

Data Science Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Greenbelt, MD

Large scale climate modeling on NASA's discover supercomputing cluster.