Srijan Kumar
FounderCEO & Co-founder at Lighthouz AI
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
FoundedLighthouz AI Β· YC
About
Srijan Kumar is an AI researcher with 14 years of experience building systems deployed at Meta, Wikipedia, The Home Depot, and Flipkart. He has held faculty and research positions at Georgia Tech, Google, Stanford, CMU, UMD, and IIT, and has authored 60+ peer-reviewed publications. He is now building AI agents for logistics applications powered by knowledge graphs.
CEO & Co-founder at Lighthouz AIYC S24
Intro paths
Srijan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. β the partner who ran Lighthouz AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Srijan can intro founders to Lighthouz AI's investors below.
Lighthouz AI's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Lighthouz AI
Experience
- Lighthouz AI (YC S24)Co-founder and CEOcurrent2023 β present
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant Professor at College of Computingcurrent2020 β present
- AnvaiAI Advisorcurrent2023 β present
- InshortsAI Advisor2023 β 2024
- GoogleResearcher in Google AI2019Mountain View, CA
- Stanford UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science2017 β 2019Stanford
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearcher, Computer Science2016
- MIT Global Startup LabsEntrepreneur2013
- IBM India Research LabResearcher2012
- University at BuffaloResearcher2011
Skills & more
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ResearchData MiningMachine LearningAlgorithmsOptimizationAlgorithm DesignComputer ScienceData AnalysisMachine learningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data scienceData miningLanguages English Β· Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Srijan Kumar?
- Srijan Kumar is an AI researcher with 14 years of experience building systems deployed at Meta, Wikipedia, The Home Depot, and Flipkart. He has held faculty and research positions at Georgia Tech, Google, Stanford, CMU, UMD, and IIT, and has authored 60+ peer-reviewed publications. He is now building AI agents for logistics applications powered by knowledge graphs.
- Where does Srijan Kumar work?
- Srijan Kumar is CEO & Co-founder of Lighthouz AI.
- What companies did Srijan Kumar found?
- Srijan Kumar founded Lighthouz AI.
- Where did Srijan Kumar go to school?
- Srijan Kumar studied at Stanford University (Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science); University of Maryland (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering).
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