Vercept

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World-class AI team
Well-funded stealth startup (seed round raised)
Based in Seattle, Washington

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Meet our Team
Vercept Team

Meet Our Team

Our founding team is world-class in building AI.

Previously Senior Research Scientist at AI2, leading research in computer vision, deep learning, and AI agents. Recent best papers at CoRL 2024 (Poliformer), IROS 2024 (HarmonicMM), and ICRA 2024 (RT-X). Ph.D. from UW CSE.
Led development of major AI research projects including Molmo, ProcTHOR (NeurIPS Outstanding Paper), and Objaverse. Previously joined AI2 at 18 and is a Ph.D. dropout at UW CSE.
Previously Research Manager and Infrastructure Team Lead at AI2. Led work in AI agents and reinforcement learning. Recent work includes PoliFormer, SPOC, and AllenAct. UW Stats Ph.D. and UC Berkeley Math valedictorian.
The 19th most cited person in the history of science. Pioneered computer vision with deep learning (Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Segment Anything). Previously Research Scientist at Meta AI and AI2, and Postdoc at UC Berkeley.
Founding CEO of AI2 (2013-2022). Pioneer in natural language processing and machine learning. Professor Emeritus at UW with h-index of 100+. Founded multiple successful companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft).