

Delta Podcast
Delta Institute
Supporting exceptional researchers/engineers, from academia to industry and beyond.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 44min
Ep. 35: Michael Poli, Radical Numerics CEO and Stanford CS PhD
Michael Poli is the co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics. Before founding Radical Numerics, he was a founding scientist at Liquid AI and finished his PhD at Stanford's CS Department.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 28min
Ep. 34: Akari Asai, Allen Institute for AI Researcher
Akari Asai is a researcher at AI2 and incoming assistant professor at CMU.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 46min
Ep. 33: Tyler Griggs, Berkeley EECS PhD Student and NovaSky Co-Lead
Tyler Griggs is a PhD Student at Berkeley EECS and the creator of NovaSky.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 26min
Ep. 32: Andrej Risteski, CMU ML Professor
Andrej Risteski is an assistant professor at CMU's ML Department.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 50min
Ep. 31: Sanmi Koyejo, Stanford CS Professor and Virtue AI Co-Founder
Sanmi Koyejo is an assistant professor at Stanford's CS Department.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 49min
Ep. 30: Ari Morcos, Meta AI Former Staff Researcher and DatologyAI CEO
Ari Morcos is the CEO of Datology and a former staff researcher at FAIR. Before coming to FAIR, he was a researcher at DeepMind, and before that, he got his PhD from Harvard.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 26min
Ep. 29: Shreya Shankar, Berkeley EECS PhD Student and DocETL Creator
Shreya Shankar is a PhD student at Berkeley EECS, where she works on building reliable/efficient AI-powered data systems.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 31min
Ep. 28: Sewon Min, Berkeley AI Professor and AI2 Researcher
Sewon Min is an assistant professor at Berkeley AI Research, and a researcher at AI2. Before coming to Berkeley, she got her PhD at the University of Washington.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 27min
Ep. 27: Amin Karbasi, Google AI Former Staff Researcher and Robust Intelligence Chief Scientist
Amin Karbasi is the senior director of Cisco Foundation AI, and the former chief scientist at Robust Intelligence. Before that, he was a staff researcher at Google AI and a professor at Yale.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.

Nov 28, 2025 • 47min
Ep. 26: Aviral Kumar, Google DeepMind Researcher and CMU ML Professor
Aviral is an assistant professor at CMU's ML Department and a researcher at Google DeepMind. Before coming to CMU, he got his PhD at Berkeley EECS.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.


