Delta Podcast

Ep. 55: Karthik Narasimhan, GPT Co-Author and Princeton CS Professor

Karthik Narasimhan is an associate professor at Princeton's CS Department and the co-director of Princeton NLP. He's led numerous projects at the intersection of language and agents, including ReACT, Tree of Thoughts, SWE-Bench, SWE-Agent, WebShop, GEO, Tau-Bench, and more. He used to be the head of research at Sierra (currently valued at $10B+) and was one of the co-authors of the original GPT paper. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ep. 54: Michael Wornow: Kinetic Systems CEO and Stanford CS PhD

Michael is the CEO of Kinetic Systems and recently finished his CS PhD at Stanford, where he was advised by Nigam Shah and Chris Ré. Before coming to Stanford, Michael studied CS and Statistics at Harvard, where he worked on research at the Broad Institute. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ep. 53: Brian Zhan, Partner at Striker VP and Investor in Reflection, Skild, Periodic, Ricursive

Brian Zhan is a partner at Striker Venture Partners. He's invested in several leading research startups, including Periodic Labs, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, Voyage AI, and more. Before coming to venture, he was a product manager on the Facebook Presto team, then led product at Starburst Data. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at brian@striker.vc. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ep. 52: Lakshya Agrawal, GEPA Lead Author and Berkeley AI PhD Student

Lakshya Agrawal is the lead author of GEPA and a PhD Student at Berkeley AI Research. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a research fellow at Microsoft. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

Ep. 51: Kayo Yin, Berkeley AI PhD Student and ACL Best Resource Paper Winner

Kayo is a PhD Student at Berkeley AI Research, and an ACL Best Resource Paper winner. She has interned at Microsoft Research and Google DeepMind. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.