Speaker Bio
Vijay Karunamurthy is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures, where he is focusing on AI and Reinforcement Learning for domains such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Robotics, and economically important tasks.
Previously, Vijay led Engineering, Product, Design and research at Scale AI, where he worked to democratize the capabilities of Reinforcement Learning and Agents, partnering with research labs, governments, and Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to Scale, Vijay was Director of Engineering and Machine Learning at Apple and Google, where he worked on AI for personalization, discovery and health. He was an early employee at YouTube, and Head of Search and Discovery after the Google acquisition of YouTube. Vijay was also cofounder and CEO (with Steve Chen) of Nom, an ML for live video startup backed by Khosla Ventures and acquired by Apple.
Vijay holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Biochemistry and Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. At UIUC he obtained a research grant to build a shallow neural network analyzing proteomics data, which is how he caught the machine learning bug.