Naveen Rao

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San Diego, California, United States25 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Co-founded Nervana, revolutionizing AI computation.
Led AI initiatives at Databricks post-acquisition.
Expert in neural networks and machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and computational neuroscience.

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Neuroscientist, AI perpetrator, processor architect , entrepreneur, and investor. My career has been about how we can build synthetic intelligence and make it available everywhere. I co-founded Nervana with the goal of changing the way we think about computation. In the previous phase of computation, we built machines that crunch numbers. In the next phase of computation, we'll need machines that peer into large data sets and find useful insight. At Nervana we changed the world of hardware for AI. The next phase will be...

Experience

Databricks

2 roles

Advisor

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence

Jul 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

After the acquisition of Mosaic ML by Databricks, we're continuing to drive state-of-the-art capabilities in AI to the enterprise! We are now able to broaden our solutions to leverage everything Databricks has built around data security, governance, and preprocessing to be expressed through large-scale AI models. We are hiring!

Unconventional ai

Chief Executive Officer

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Rethinking the foundations of compute. Do you want to be Unconventional? Drop us a line at jobs@unconv.ai

Luminous computing

Board Member

Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Santa Clara, CA · On-site

Mosaicml

CEO and co-founder

Jan 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · United States

We're making AI/ML training efficient, algorithmically! If you want to be at the forefront of AI/ML and help build a better, more sustainable world, join us! http://mosaicml.com

Neureality

Board member

Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Israel

NeuReality is rethinking scalable inference in the datacenter. For careers see https://www.neureality-ai.com/careers

Allen institute

Scientific advisory board

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Beacon biosignals

Board Member

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Square

Board Member

Nov 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Intel corporation

2 roles

CorpVP and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Products Group

May 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Vice President and General Manager (Intel acquisition)

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos

Nervana

CEO and Co-founder of Nervana

Feb 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater San Diego Area

Nervana is changing the way we think of computation and AI. Our machine intelligence platform allows the application of state-of-the-art neural network learning to nearly any kind of data problem.
To learn more, visit us at http://www.nervanasys.com

Qualcomm

Researcher - neuromorphic machines

Oct 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Diego and Massachusetts

Neural computation and learning in artificial systems.
Our group was investigating how biologically-inspired neural networks and artificial neural networks can be used to efficiently solve difficult computational problems. The brain uses only 20 watts of power to do a tremendous amount of statistical inference. How can we build computers that began to approach this level of computational power, but do it while running on a laptop battery for 2 days straight? Our group was building technologies to close this gap..

Itg

Assistant Vice President

Oct 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr · Greater Boston Area

Designed algorithms to optimize daily trading strategies to minimize implementation shortfall - Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

Brown university

Postdoctoral research associate in Neuroscience

Jul 2011 – Nov 2011 · 4 mos

I am studying information coding in the brain as it pertains to the computations that underlie movement. We employ a host of statistical prediction techniques to extract movement-relevant parameters from noisy neural data.