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Arun Kumar

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Co-founder at Rapidfire

San Diego, California, United States

FoundedRapidfire

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About

Arun Kumar is a cofounder and CTO of RapidFire AI, a software startup focused on experimentation tools for improving evaluation metrics in LLM applications. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego, where he also serves as an HDSI Faculty Fellow, with research interests in data management and systems for AI engineering and analytics. His work has been incorporated into or used internally by companies including Google, Facebook, Oracle, and VMware, and he has received four SIGMOD/ICDE research paper awards, early career awards from NSF, VLDB, and IEEE TCDE, and research gifts from Amazon, Google, Oracle, and VMware.

Co-founder at Rapidfire

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Rapidfire's investors · 2

.406 VenturesBoston · $1M – $4M checks · since 2024AI FundMountain View · $100K – $1M checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Rapidfire

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Jack NorrisCo-founder
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Pradyumna SridharaFounder

Experience

  1. UC San DiegoProfessorcurrent2026 — presentLa Jolla, CA
  2. UC San DiegoAssociate Professor2021 — 2026San Diego, CA
  3. UC San DiegoAssistant Professor2016 — 2021La Jolla, California
  4. RapidFire AICofounder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Diego, California, United States
  5. Microsoft Jim Gray Systems LabMicrosoft Graduate Research Assistant2013 — 2016Madison, WI
  6. University of Wisconsin-MadisonGraduate Student / Research Assistant2009 — 2016Madison, WI
  7. Microsoft Cloud and Information Services LabResearch Intern2013Redmond, WA
  8. Oracle LabsResearch Assistant2012Redwood Shores, CA
  9. IBM Almaden Research CenterResearch Intern2011San Jose, CA
  10. Microsoft Jim Gray Systems LabMicrosoft Graduate Research Assistant2010 — 2011Madison, WI
  11. NetAppIntern2008Bangalore, India

Skills & more

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingResearch and Development (R&D)Transfer LearningLarge Language Models (LLM)Deep LearningData ManagementBig Data AnalyticsMachine LearningAlgorithmsHadoopPostgreSQL
+9 moreCC++JavaPythonSQLRDatabase SystemsHiveSpark

Languages English · Hindi · Tamil

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Who is Arun Kumar?
Arun Kumar is a cofounder and CTO of RapidFire AI, a software startup focused on experimentation tools for improving evaluation metrics in LLM applications. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego, where he also serves as an HDSI Faculty Fellow, with research interests in data management and systems for AI engineering and analytics. His work has been incorporated into or used internally by companies including Google, Facebook, Oracle, and VMware, and he has received four SIGMOD/ICDE research paper awards, early career awards from NSF, VLDB, and IEEE TCDE, and research gifts from Amazon, Google, Oracle, and VMware.
Where does Arun Kumar work?
Arun Kumar is Co-founder of Rapidfire.
What companies did Arun Kumar found?
Arun Kumar founded Rapidfire.
Where did Arun Kumar go to school?
Arun Kumar studied at UC San Diego Extended Studies (MicroMBA, Business Administration and Management); University of Wisconsin-Madison (MS, PhD); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (BTech, Computer Science and Engineering).

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