Vijay Pathak
FounderFounder at Coalition Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedCoalition Systems
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Vijay Pathak is the co-founder and CEO of Coalition Systems, a company that develops AI coordination software for national security. He is pursuing an engineering PhD at Oxford and previously studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale.
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Experience
- Coalition SystemsCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- University of OxfordPhD Researcher - Engineering Sciencecurrent2024 — present
- Quantum PoliticaFounding Partnercurrent2024 — present
- NATOSpeaker, AI & Defence2025
- NATONATO Awardee2024 — 2025United States
- Peace and Dialogue Leadership InitiativePDLI Fellow2022 — 2023Yale University & United States Military Academy
- Yale Law SchoolLegal Researcher2022 — 2023New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- BridgepointPrivate Equity W.E. Programme2019City Of London, England, United Kingdom
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Languages Dutch · English · French · German · Hindi · Luxembourgish
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- Who is Vijay Pathak?
- Vijay Pathak is the co-founder and CEO of Coalition Systems, a company that develops AI coordination software for national security. He is pursuing an engineering PhD at Oxford and previously studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale.
- Where does Vijay Pathak work?
- Vijay Pathak is Founder of Coalition Systems.
- What companies did Vijay Pathak found?
- Vijay Pathak founded Coalition Systems.
- Where did Vijay Pathak go to school?
- Vijay Pathak studied at University of Oxford (PhD Researcher, Engineering Science); Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - B.A., Ethics); Winchester College (History, Mathematics).
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