raghav tirumale

i work on ml at anduril.

i've wanted to build robots since i was a kid. at tjhsst, i attempted humanoids with friends and built a voice agent inspired by baymax for research.

i finished computer engineering at uiuc in three years, with grad classes in manycore parallel algorithms and systems for generative ai. while there, i worked on applied ai at khoj (yc s23), built drone detection from raw rf at guardian rf (yc s24), and led inference at deepgrove (yc s25), pushing a frontier 20b parameter model past 200 tokens per second on commodity hardware.

i care most about machine intelligence and how to make it more reliable, performant, and widespread. as an 8vc fellow, i got a chance to hear from founders of some of the most ambitious companies.

outside work, i meditate, train, cook, drink tea, have long conversations with friends, and occasionally write.

tirumale [dot] raghav [at] gmail [dot] com