(0150) ex-professor, ex-Meta research director, and other big tech technical founders

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Early Stage Founders

• Yuandong Tian (Menlo Park)

  • Research Director at Meta, where he’s been a research scientist for nearly a decade, working his way up from individual contributor to leading research teams. Recently started working in stealth.

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• Adrien Gaidon (Los Altos)

  • Partner at Calibrate Ventures and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, now co-founding a stealth startup. Previously head of ML at TRI.

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• Chris Lu (Fremont)

  • Big data and distributed systems engineer with experience at Facebook, Uber, and Roblox. Based in Fremont, California.

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