About
Raaz Dwivedi is a cofounder of Traversal, a company developing AI site reliability engineers for enterprise use, and a professor at Cornell Tech. He completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard and MIT. His research spans causal inference, reinforcement learning, distribution compression, and the training, evaluation, and deployment of large language models and AI agents.
Co-founder at Traversal
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Experience
- TraversalCofoundercurrent2023 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- Cornell TechAssistant Professorcurrent2024 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
- Cornell UniversityAssistant Professorcurrent2023 — presentNew York
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral Research Fellow2021 — 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesPostdoctoral Research Fellow2021 — 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- UC BerkeleyPHD2015 — 2021Berkeley
- Microsoft New England Research and Development CenterResearch Intern2019Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Mist SystemsResearch Intern2017Cupertino, California, United States
- WorldQuant LLCSenior Quantitative Researcher2014 — 2015
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayInstitute Student Mentor and Department Academic Mentor2012 — 2014Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayTeaching Assistant2011 — 2014Mumbai Area, India
- Stanford UniversityVisiting Scholar2013Stanford, California, United States
- Ivy Mobility SolutionsBusiness Analyst2012Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Skills & more
C++20Matlab25LaTeX15Programming12Algorithms7Verilog5Data Analysis4C18Python7Microsoft Excel6HTML4Mathematical Statistics1
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OptimizationQuantitative FinanceMachine LearningGraphical ModelsDeep LearningLanguages English · Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Raaz Dwivedi?
- Raaz Dwivedi is a cofounder of Traversal, a company developing AI site reliability engineers for enterprise use, and a professor at Cornell Tech. He completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard and MIT. His research spans causal inference, reinforcement learning, distribution compression, and the training, evaluation, and deployment of large language models and AI agents.
- Where does Raaz Dwivedi work?
- Raaz Dwivedi is Co-founder of Traversal.
- What companies did Raaz Dwivedi found?
- Raaz Dwivedi founded Traversal.
- Where did Raaz Dwivedi go to school?
- Raaz Dwivedi studied at University of California, Berkeley (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences); Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical); Sagar Public School (Senior Secondary, Science and Maths).
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