About
Lukas Wolf studied computer science at ETH and MIT, where he focused on AI and NLP research. He has held research positions at academic institutions and roles at both corporate and startup organizations.
Founder at SoniaYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Lukas went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Sonia's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Lukas can intro founders to Sonia's investors below.
Sonia's investors · 1
Co-founders at Sonia
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Dustin KlebeFounder
Experience
- Sonia (YC W24)Co-Foundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Y CombinatorW24 Batch2024San Francisco Bay Area
- ETH ZürichResearch Assistant2022 — 2023Zurich, Switzerland
- University of ZurichResearch Assistant2021 — 2023Zurich, Switzerland
- ETH ZürichTeaching Assistant2021 — 2022Zurich, Switzerland
- PolyTech Wind Power Technology Germany GmbHWorking Student2017 — 2018Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- PolyTech Wind Power Technology Germany GmbHBachelor Thesis2017 — 2018Munich, Bavaria
- BMW GroupIntern2017Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Technical University MunichStudent Assistant2016 — 2017Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Skills & more
Natural Language Processing (NLP)29Deep LearningAlgorithms6Artificial Intelligence (AI)6PythonPytorch3LaTeX2C++2TensorFlow4Java4Microsoft Office1Matlab3
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lukas Wolf?
- Lukas Wolf studied computer science at ETH and MIT, where he focused on AI and NLP research. He has held research positions at academic institutions and roles at both corporate and startup organizations.
- Where does Lukas Wolf work?
- Lukas Wolf is Founder of Sonia.
- What companies did Lukas Wolf found?
- Lukas Wolf founded Sonia.
- Where did Lukas Wolf go to school?
- Lukas Wolf studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master Thesis Project); ETH Zürich (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); The University of Edinburgh (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science).
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ETH Zürich mafia103
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The University of Edinburgh mafia41
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Shared employers
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