Delta Podcast

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) is is an international research/community organization. They’ve hosted 27 sponsored events across major cities and top research conferences with sponsors like Sequoia, a16z, Cursor, and more. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of 50+ video interviews with leading researchers/engineers.

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) is is an international research/community organization. They’ve hosted 27 sponsored events across major cities and top research conferences with sponsors like Sequoia, a16z, Cursor, and more. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of 50+ video interviews with leading researchers/engineers.

Brian Zhan, partner at Striker Venture Partners and former product lead on Facebook’s Presto team, brings deep expertise in data systems, robotics, and AI-for-science investments. He discusses open-sourcing MPP systems, early bets on vector search, backing robotic foundation models, and investing in AI-driven bioscience and research startups. Practical startup advice and frontier research trends round out the conversation.

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) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

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) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

Jeffrey is a CS PhD Student at Harvard, and the lead author of SWE-fficiency. Before coming to Harvard, Jeffrey worked at Citadel.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

Alexi is a PhD student at UIUC CS, and the lead author of the Energy-Based Transformers paper. He's currently interning at Meta AI as a Research Scientist Intern, and interned at Palantir in the past.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

Lisa is an EECS PhD student at Berkeley, where she focuses on researching how data shapes model behavior.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

Rehaan Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of alphaXiv. Before alphaXiv, he studied CS at Stanford.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.

Kexin Huang is a CS PhD student at Stanford and the lead author of Biomni.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.