Raunak Chowdhuri
FounderFounder at Reducto
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedReducto Β· YC
About
Raunak Chowdhuri is Co-founder and CTO at Reducto. He studied computer science at MIT and previously founded and operated a computational chemistry consulting business. He has published computer vision research during his high school years.
Raunak @raunakdoesdev
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Aug 1, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Raunak @raunakdoesdev
you know your intern is cooking when he has 16TB of model weights and data on the training cluster
Aug 1, 2026 Β· β₯ 27 Β· β 1
Raunak @raunakdoesdev
apologizing for being up 80% YTD is crazy work leopold is a mad man in the best ways https://t.co/9AOJUAxbMK
Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 9
Founder at ReductoYC W24
Intro paths
Raunak went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Reducto's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Raunak can intro founders to Reducto's investors below.
Reducto's investors Β· 4
Co-founders at Reducto
Experience
- ReductoFoundercurrent2023 β presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Oloren AICTO2020 β 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT DriverlessMachine Learning Researcher - Perception Team2020 β 2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT Lincoln LaboratoryMachine Learning Research Consultant2020 β 2021
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Assistant2020 β 2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityMachine Learning Research Lead2020 β 2021San Diego, California, United States
- Peptide LogicMachine Learning Research Consultant2020 β 2021San Diego County, California, United States
- NVIDIAAutomous Driving Research Intern2021Santa Clara, California, United States
- NVIDIAAutomous Driving Research Intern2021
- DeGirum Corp.Verification Consultant2020San Diego, California, United States
- CaltechResearch Assistant2019Pasadena, California
- PhonoNet Research ProjectIndependent Research2018 β 2019San Diego County, California, United States
- IEEE Robotics and Automation SocietyIROS 2018 Reviewer2018
- University of California, BerkeleyUndergraduate Researcher - Berkeley DeepDrive2017Greater San Diego Area
- Rockley Photonics Inc.Software Engineer - Intern2016Pasadena, California
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering2020 β 2024
- Westview High SchoolHigh School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates2016 β 2020
Skills & more
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PyTorchC++JavaLinuxGitLaTeXJetson Developer Board- Structuring Machine Learning Projects β Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks β Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning β Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization β Coursera
- MIT 6.00.1x: Introduction to Conputer Science and Programming using Python β edX
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Y Combinator mafia8,668
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia464
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Same school
Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology1,290
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Shared employers
Also worked at Reducto5
Also worked at MIT Driverless5
Also worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory31
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Also worked at Carnegie Mellon University133
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