Delta Podcast

Delta Institute
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Nov 28, 2025 • 41min

Ep. 45: John Yang, SWE-Bench Lead Author and Stanford CS PhD Student

John Yang is a CS PhD student at Stanford, and the lead author of SWE-Bench and SWE-Agent. Before coming to Stanford, he did a thesis-based MSCS at Princeton, and before that, he studied EECS at Berkeley for undergrad.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 25min

Ep. 44: Div Garg, AGI Inc. CEO and Stanford CS PhD on On-Device AI

Div Garg is the CEO of AGI, Inc, and is currently on leave a CS PhD student 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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 34min

Ep. 43: Tanishq Abraham, Sophont CEO and Former Stability AI Research Director

Tanishq Abraham is the CEO of Sophont, where he's working on building medical foundation models. Before that, he was a research director at Stability AI.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 41min

Ep. 42: David Stutz, Google DeepMind Staff Research Scientist

David Stutz is a staff research scientist at DeepMind, where he works on medical agents and watermarking.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 51min

Ep. 41: Shubho Sengupta, Axiom Math CTO

Shubho is the CTO of Axiom Math and a former researcher at Meta AI.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 53min

Ep. 40: Alex Zhang, Recursive Language Model Creator and MIT CSAIL PhD Student

Alex Zhang is a 1st-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL and the creator of the recursive language model.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 53min

Ep. 39: Pim de Witte, General Intuition CEO

Pim de Witte is the CEO of General Intuition, where he's working on exciting problems with large scale data and solving research problems across agents, video understanding, and world models. General Intuition has an extremely ambitious mission, and recently raised a $133.7 million seed round to support their vision.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 48min

Ep. 38: Swyx, Cognition Team and Latent Space Podcast Host

Shawn Wang (Swyx), founder of the Latent Space podcast and AI product builder now at Cognition. He talks about career pivots from finance to devrel and AI, launching Latent Space and the AI Engineer Summit, building small AI projects and joining Cognition, and his views on product, publishing research, and long-term impact.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 52min

Ep. 37: Devvrit Khatri, Scaling RL Lead Author and UT Austin CS PhD Student

Devvrit Khatri is a 5th-year PhD student at UT Austin, studying CS. He recently interned at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he first-authored a paper titled "The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs", one of the first papers that conducts a deep analysis on scaling RL.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.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 49min

Ep. 36: Dylan Hadfield-Menell, MIT CSAIL Professor

Dylan Hadfield-Menell is an assistant professor at MIT CSAIL, where he works on research in alignment, Before coming to MIT, he got his PhD at Berkeley, where he was advised by Stuart Russell, Anca Dragan, and Pieter Abbeel.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.

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