AI Researcher, Investor | Partner @ Laude | Co-founder @ Snorkel AI

I am an AI researcher & investor who converted my research into a billion dollar business with the help of an amazing team; I now help the next generation of researchers do the same. Career highlights include: ► Founder of Snorkel AI ($235M raised, $1.3B valuation), solving the unsexy but critical parts of AI: data and evals ► Leader of GenAI evaluation R&D for the most downloaded open LLM family in the world of its time (Llama 3, 1B+ downloads) ► Researcher at Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Google, Meta; published in NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, etc. ► Startup advisor (e.g. Gusto, Martian AI), angel investor, and institutional investor @ Laude (portfolio: Perplexity, LMArena, etc.) ► Invited speaker @ NVIDIA GTC, O’Reilly AI, Open Core Summit, Investing in Ethical AI, etc. Life is good with my marvelous wife and three kids in the Bay Area, California! Personal website: https://bradenhancock.com Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=28y0Xe4AAAAJ