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Kavinayan Sivakumar

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Special Advisor at Duke Capital Partners

United States

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About

Kavinayan Sivakumar holds a PhD from Duke University's Electrical and Computer Engineering program, where he worked with Dr. Michael Zavlanos on transferring knowledge between heterogeneous agents. He focuses on building technology companies that address difficult problems, and has prior experience in venture capital through a fellowship as well as operator experience at an incubator.

Experience

  1. GardenFounding ML Research Engineercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. ScholarAIFounding AI Scientist2023 — 2024
  3. Duke Capital PartnersLead AI/ML Associate2023 — 2024Durham, North Carolina, United States
  4. Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringPHD2018 — 2023Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
  5. Nassau Street VenturesFellow2019 — 2020
  6. Ford Motor CompanyIntern2018Dearborn, MI
  7. MIT Aerospace Controls LabResearch Associate2017Greater Boston
  8. MIT Aerospace Controls LabResearch Associate2016Greater Boston
  9. University of Pennsylvania GRASP LabResearch Associate on Payroll2015Philadelphia, PA
  10. SRI InternationalResearch Associate on Payroll2014Princeton, NJ
  11. SRI InternationalResearch Associate on Payroll2013Princeton, NJ
  12. Boston UniversityResearch Associate2012Boston, MA

Skills & more

Large Language Models (LLM)Human-in-the-Loop Machine LearningLLM EvaluationMachine LearningStartupsAlgorithm DesignAlgorithm AnalysisNeural NetworksComputer VisionVenture CapitalArtificial Intelligence (AI)Reinforcement Learning
+10 moreOptimizationResearchRoboticsEntrepreneurshipCJavaC++Public SpeakingPythonOpenCV

Languages English · Spanish

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Colleagues at Duke Capital Partners

A’nna Kelly
Senior Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Annika Farkas
MBA Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Ashita Birla
Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Austin Dixon
Special Advisor at Duke Capital Partners
Blake Bacevich
MBA Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Blake Ohanesian
Law Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Bobby Y.X. Ni
PhD Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Chelsea Harris
Medical Associate at Duke Capital Partners

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Who is Kavinayan Sivakumar?
Kavinayan Sivakumar holds a PhD from Duke University's Electrical and Computer Engineering program, where he worked with Dr. Michael Zavlanos on transferring knowledge between heterogeneous agents. He focuses on building technology companies that address difficult problems, and has prior experience in venture capital through a fellowship as well as operator experience at an incubator.
Where does Kavinayan Sivakumar work?
Kavinayan Sivakumar is Special Advisor at Duke Capital Partners.
Where did Kavinayan Sivakumar go to school?
Kavinayan Sivakumar studied at Duke University Graduate School (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence); Princeton University (Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering); Montgomery High School (High School).

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