Daniel Spokoyny
FounderFounder & CEO at BeeSafe AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedBeeSafe AI · YC
About
Daniel Spokoyny holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University with research focused on transformer architectures, training methods, and reasoning benchmarks. He has over a decade of experience in machine learning and natural language processing.
Founder & CEO at BeeSafe AIYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Daniel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran BeeSafe AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Daniel can intro founders to BeeSafe AI's investors below.
BeeSafe AI's investors · 3
Co-founders at BeeSafe AI
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Ariana MirianFounder
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Nikolai VoglerFounder
Experience
- BeeSafe AI (YC W26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- UC San DiegoPostdoctoral Researcher2024 — 2025San Diego, California, United States
- Climate Change AICore Team2022 — 2024
- Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies InstitutePhD Student2017 — 2024Greater Pittsburgh Region
- SalesforceGraduate Research Intern2022Palo Alto, California, United States
- MicrosoftGraduate Research Intern2020 — 2021Redmond, Washington, United States
- GoogleGraduate Research Intern2019San Francisco Bay Area
- OpenGov Inc.NLP Intern2015Redwood City, CA
Skills & more
Public Speaking10Research12Data Analysis6Matlab4Python3Machine Learning1Natural Language Processing (NLP)Natural Language GenerationDeep Learning1
Languages Russian · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Daniel Spokoyny?
- Daniel Spokoyny holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University with research focused on transformer architectures, training methods, and reasoning benchmarks. He has over a decade of experience in machine learning and natural language processing.
- Where does Daniel Spokoyny work?
- Daniel Spokoyny is Founder & CEO of BeeSafe AI.
- What companies did Daniel Spokoyny found?
- Daniel Spokoyny founded BeeSafe AI.
- Where did Daniel Spokoyny go to school?
- Daniel Spokoyny studied at Carnegie Mellon University (PhD, Computer Science); UC Santa Barbara (College of Creative Studies Computer Science, Computer Science); Phillips Exeter Academy.
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