Delta Podcast

Songlin Yang is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL and the first-author of the flash linear attention library. She has first-authored papers that have been accepted to top conferences, including ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS. In addition to research, she helped organize the virtual seminar series and also helps lead the flash linear attention discord community. If you'd like to reach out, please email her at yangsl66@mit.edu.​​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.

Yifei Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL. He recently had 3 papers accepted to ICML 2025, including his paper, "Beyond Matryoshka: Revisiting Sparse Coding for Adaptive Representation", which was an oral paper. Before coming to MIT for his postdoc, Yifei got his undergraduate and PhD degrees at Peking University.​​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.

Jaeyeon Kim is a PhD student at Harvard, studying Computer Science. He also first-authored the research paper titled "Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions", which was one of six papers that won the ICML 2025 Outstanding Paper Award out of 12,000 papers that were submitted to the conference. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at jaeyeon_kim@g.harvard.edu.​​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.

Ameet Talwalkar is an associate professor at CMU's ML Department and the Chief Scientist at Datadog. He's also been a venture partner at Amplify, the co-founder of Determined AI, which was acquired by HP, and an assistant professor at UCLA. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at talwalkar@cmu.edu.​​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.

Yilun Du is an assistant professor at Harvard and a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before coming to Harvard, Yilun got his PhD in EECS at MIT, was a research fellow at OpenAI, and was a visiting researcher at Facebook AI Research. He also got a gold medal in the International Biology Olympiad. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at yilundu@mit.edu.​​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.

Pradeep Ravikumar is a professor at CMU and the founder of Wood Wide. He’s also the co-editor in chief of JMLR. If you’d like to reach out, please email him at pradeepr@cs.cmu.edu.​​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.

Tengyu Ma is an assistant professor at Stanford’s CS Department and the co-founder and CEO of Voyage AI. He’s now the Chief AI Scientist at MongoDB. If you’d like to reach out, please email him at tengyuma@stanford.edu.​​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.

Zico Kolter is the director of CMU's ML Department (ml.cmu.edu), and is on the board for OpenAI. He's also the co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor of Gray Swan AI, and is a Chief Expert at Robert Bosch. He mainly focuses on improving the safety and robustness of ML models, including applications like LLM security and better understanding the relationship between training data and resulting models. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at zkolter@cs.cmu.edu.​​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.

Pranav Reddy is a partner at Conviction (conviction.com), where he invests in AI-native companies, and serves on the board of HeyGen, an AI-based video generation company. Before that, he was a founding engineer and later, an engineering manager at Neeva, which was acquired by Snowflake. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at pranav@conviction.com.​​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.

Nikhil Thota was the 2nd Engineer to join Perplexity, one of the world's leading AI search companies. Before that, he worked at Facebook and WhatsApp. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at nikhil@perplexity.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.