About
Omar Shams founded Mutable.ai after working as a researcher at DeepMind, where he published work on reinforcement learning and graph neural networks. He previously held roles in music recommendation systems and theoretical physics research.
Founder at mutable.aiYC W22
Intro paths
YC
Omar went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Omar can intro founders to mutable.ai's investors below.
Experience
- GoogleResearch Engineercurrent2024 — present
- mutable.aiFounder/CEO2021 — 2024
- AppleStaff Machine Learning Engineer2020 — 2021
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2017 — 2020Software Engineer
- GoogleResearch Engineer @ DeepMind2018 — 2019London, England, United Kingdom
- DeepMindResearch Engineer2018 — 2019London, England, United Kingdom
- Hutchin Hill CapitalQuantitative Research Scientist2016 — 2017Greater New York City Area
- HifiMachine Learning Engineer (Lead)2015 — 2016Greater New York City Area
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Omar Shams?
- Omar Shams founded Mutable.ai after working as a researcher at DeepMind, where he published work on reinforcement learning and graph neural networks. He previously held roles in music recommendation systems and theoretical physics research.
- Where does Omar Shams work?
- Omar Shams is Founder of mutable.ai.
- What companies did Omar Shams found?
- Omar Shams founded mutable.ai.
- Where did Omar Shams go to school?
- Omar Shams studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelors of Science, Physics); Rutgers University (PhD (all but dissertation), Theoretical Particle Physics); Y Combinator.
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