About
Anish Agarwal is the CEO and cofounder of Traversal, which develops an AI site reliability engineer for enterprises, with the goal of building production systems that autonomously diagnose, remediate, and prevent failures. He is a Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Columbia University, where his research covers causal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and high-dimensional statistics. He completed doctoral research in causal machine learning at MIT.
Co-founder at Traversal
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Experience
- TraversalCEO and Cofoundercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- Columbia UniversityAssistant Professorcurrent2023 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- AmazonResearch Scientist2022 — 2023Berkeley, California, United States
- Simons Institute for the Theory of ComputingPostdoctoral Fellow2022Berkeley, California, United States
- MicrosoftMachine Learning Researcher2021Microsoft Research New England
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPHD Student2017 — 2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- IKASILead Machine Learning Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco, California, United States
- The Boston Consulting GroupAssociate Consultant2015 — 2016Los Angeles, California, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Anish Agarwal?
- Anish Agarwal is the CEO and cofounder of Traversal, which develops an AI site reliability engineer for enterprises, with the goal of building production systems that autonomously diagnose, remediate, and prevent failures. He is a Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Columbia University, where his research covers causal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and high-dimensional statistics. He completed doctoral research in causal machine learning at MIT.
- Where does Anish Agarwal work?
- Anish Agarwal is Co-founder of Traversal.
- What companies did Anish Agarwal found?
- Anish Agarwal founded Traversal.
- Where did Anish Agarwal go to school?
- Anish Agarwal studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Caltech (Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science); Caltech (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering).
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