Meet the Team

Our team has unique experience, building and running core AI technology at Microsoft, Google, and AI2 as well as authoring award-winning academic research at Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, MIT, and others. Collectively, we have made pioneering contributions to natural language processing, machine learning, semantic understanding, program synthesis, speech recognition and synthesis, and linguistics.

Leadership

Dan Roth

Co-Founder & CEO

Dan Roth was founder and CEO of three previous technology companies which were all acquired by public companies.

Dan Klein

Co-Founder & CTO

Dan Klein is a serial entrepreneur and professor of AI at UC Berkeley.

Damon Pender

Co-Founder & CFO

Damon Pender, Co-Founder and CFO, has over 30 years of experience starting and growing technology.

Research

Anthony Platanios

VP, Research

Anthony is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition with over a decade of experience in artificial intelligence research.

Aviv Keshet

Research Engineer

Aviv Keshet is a research engineer at Scaled Cognition, with a focus on ML systems and performance.

Christopher Kedzie

Research Scientist

Chris Kedzie is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition with a background in natural language generation and conversational AI.

Kevin Yang

Research Scientist

Kevin Yang is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition. Prior to joining, he did his PhD in AI / NLP at UC Berkeley.

Matt Gardner

Research Scientist

Matt is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition who has been conducting natural language processing research for nearly two decades, with close to 100 academic publications.

Mitchell Stern

Research Scientist

Mitchell is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition. Prior to joining, he completed his PhD at UC Berkeley.

Nikita Srivatsan

Research Scientist

Nikita Srivatsan is a research scientist at Scaled Cognition, having joined in June of 2024. Prior to that, she earned her PhD in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dan Schwartz

Research Engineer

Dan is a research engineer at Scaled Cognition with decades of experience in research and industry. His research background is in language modeling and computational neuroscience.

Engineering

Brent Read

Software Engineer

Brent is a software engineer with experience working on platform reliability at Square and ML infrastructure in Azure.

Jennifer Wang

Software Engineer

Jennifer Wang is a software engineer at Scaled Cognition. Previously, she worked with the Onsite Publishing team at Amazon.

JJ Wang

Software Engineer

JJ Wang is a software engineer at Scaled Cognition, where she focuses on developing seamless user experiences.

Jordan DeLoach

VP, Engineering

Jordan DeLoach is a software engineer at Scaled Cognition. Previously, he served as a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter.

Lisa Wang

Software Engineer

Lisa is a software engineer at Scaled Cognition, with previous experience on the Cloud Infrastructure Capacity Management team at Salesforce.

Marco DiPlacido

Software Engineer

A veteran technologist, previously at Microsoft, with 24 years building large-scale online services and pioneering security innovations in Exchange Online.

Will Daly

Software Engineer

Will is a software engineer specializing in backend infrastructure. Previously, he worked on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at Microsoft.

Product + GTM

Akshay Kannan

VP, Product

Akshay comes to Scaled Cognition after 14 years at Google as a Group Product Manager, passionate about bringing innovative AI and ML experiences to market.

Evan Brown

Dir., Business Development

Evan joins Scaled Cognition as the Founding Director of Business Development to grow the Sales team, bringing a track record of driving growth at high-performing startups.

Diana Ho

Dir., Product

Diana's background includes leading product development at Microsoft Semantic Machines for Conversational AI developer tooling, and the data production pipeline.