Meet Our Team
Our founding team is world-class in building AI.


Kiana Ehsani
CEO
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.


Matt Deitke
Co-founder
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.


Luca Weihs
Co-founder
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.


Ross Girshick
Co-founder
The 18th 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.


Oren Etzioni
Co-founder
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).


Kuo-Hao Zeng
Founding Research Scientist
Previously Research Scientist at AI2. I train policies with IL/RL in simulation and deploy them to the real world. Led CoRL 2024 Best Paper (PoliFormer). Ph.D. from UW CSE.


Eric Kolve
Founding Engineer
Previously, Eric held the position of Principal Software Engineer at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), contributing to cutting-edge research in embodied AI and collaborative agent systems.


Harshitha Rebala
Member of Technical Staff
Undergraduate at the University of Washington studying Computer Science. Previous Microsoft SWE intern and Machine Learning researcher at KurtLab, UW.


Cam Sloan
Founding Frontend Engineer
Cam Sloan is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He previously co-founded Hopscotch, a user onboarding platform for SaaS companies.

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