May 2026 – Present · 1 mo · New York, United States

• Researching deep-tech and early-stage startups, getting real-world exposure of Venture Capital(VCs) at global level, and collaborating closely with founders to identify high-potential early stage startups for a $625M fund, backed over 1000+ startups, $150K- $250K investment at pre-seed and seed stage.
• I work on sourcing deal flow, supporting early evaluations, and helping founders connect with capital, strategic resources, and strong communities.
• Areas of interest include:
• AI
• Bio × Computing
• Semiconductor Industry
• AI for Science
• Robotics
• Manufacturing
• SpaceTech & Defence
• HealthTech
• Security
• If you're building something ambitious at an early stage, I’d love to connect. Feel free to reach out at vc.riyabisht@gmail.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.

May 2026 – Present · 1 mo

• Researching AI x Bio x Computing

Dec 2025 – Dec 2025 · 0 mo

• CeNSE Winter School 2025 covered the following topics in Semiconductor Manufacturing:
• Overview from wafer to system
• Clean room facilities and Safety, Wafer cleaning, Doping, Deposition,
• Lithography, Etching
• Introduction to Electronics Packaging, Electrical Characterization, Advanced Packaging, Tape out Procedure – Designer, Photonics integration

Sep 2025 – Apr 2026 · 7 mos

• In-memory computing Arch, designing systems for Analog based accelerator

Sep 2025 – May 2026 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Working as a research project assistant at Molecular Neurocomputing and Cognitive Systems lab at CeNSE(Center of nanoscience and engineering) department, IISc under the guidance of Prof. Sreetosh Goswami. Trying to research and build software/compiler stack for a molecular memristors based in-memory computing neuromorphic hardware.
• Understanding the neuromorphic in-memory computing architecture from device to software level(literature survey of Compute-In-Memory/In-memory computing architectures)
• Working on compiler + ISA codesign(open-source compiler infrastructure like LLVM, RISC-V)
• Implementing custom analog accelerator ISA and designing an assembler for the same

Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Surat, Gujarat, India · On-site

• My role at Vicharak- a deep tech startup based in India was at the intersection of Machine Learning and Systems.
• Understanding Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGAs) architecture, and low bit deep neural networks.
• Researching State-Of-The-Art quantized/low bit networks including Binary Neural Nets(BNNs), Logic Gate Networks, Look Up Tables(LUTNet) Architectures and trying to leverage reconfigurable hardwares for optimizations.
• Accelerating BNN for resource limited computing devices for faster edge AI Inference.
• Deploying Logic Gate Networks on Vaaman Board(Efinix Trion 120 FPGA )
• Benchmarking the results on CPU, GPU and FPGA.
• Implementation of papers "Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks" (NeurIPS 2022) and "Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks" (NeurIPS 2024)

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland

• Team: Compilers Research Group @ Princeton University(https://compiler-research.org/team/)
• Project: Enable CUDA compilation in Cppyy-Numba generated IR. This project focuses on adding CUDA support to Cppyy front-end and giving maximum control to Python language by incorporating Numba(python JIT compiler and
• llvmite is Numba's IR based on LLVM IR) for heavy scientific computing without compromising on performance. This helps scientific community, particularly High Energy Physics and CERN's PyROOT project to work with C++-Python codebase easily due to efficient language interoperability provided by Cppyy binding generator.
• Status: Partially completed.

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Berkeley, California, United States · Hybrid

• I am a summer student at Berkeley Computing Sciences Area Program 2024. This summer we will study about High Performance Computing(or Supercomputing or Scientific Computing) and will also work with PerlMutter(Supercomputer at NERSC). Moreover, we will be studying about Quantum Computing and the future of Scientific endeavours at Berkeley Lab

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Berkeley, California, United States · Remote

• Remote Experience for Young Engineers and Scientists- REYES is a summer student program by Physics department of UC Berkeley. Lectures/trainings on Python4Physics(P4P) and talks on Astronomy, scientific community.

May 2024 – Jan 2025 · 8 mos · Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India · On-site

• Tech talks on my systems hacks and research on Free and Open Source Software(FOSS)
• ~ Introduction to Unikernels
• ~ Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs(Field Programmable Gate Arrays)

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Berkeley, California, United States · Hybrid

• Group/Division: Scientific Data Division/Physics and X-RAY Science Computing
• I am working as a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL) Lab Affiliate during summer 2024 under my host- Dr. Wim Lavrijsen(LBNL). Researching and working on project, Cppyy that is used by ROOT(Data Analysis Framework at CERN) and NWChemEx, these projects are sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) and University of California, Berkeley.
• Research draft: https://riyabisht.com/blog/01-devlog-Berkeley-Lab/
• We got an opportunity to present our research poster by the end of the summer internship.

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · Remote

• Attend CaaS(Compiler as a Service) meetings, give presentations and write blogposts
• Links: https://compiler-research.org/team/RiyaBisht, https://compiler-research.org/blogs/gsoc24_riya_bisht_introduction_blog/

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos

• Inspired by "Hackers & Painters" - Paul Graham
• We are Tiles Research, a product-driven research lab, we are exploring multiple things at the intersection of WASM/WebGPU and unikernels. Imagine working at modern Bell Labs or Xerox PARC of the coming computing age ?

Aug 2023 – Oct 2023 · 2 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Selected as a mentee for CNCF- Zero To Merge Incubator Program. Working on Cloud Native technologies and CNCF landscape.

Apr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Dan Kohn KubeCon Chicago(in person) and Europe(virtual) Student Scholarship by The Linux Foundation and CNCF

Aug 2023 – Oct 2023 · 2 mos · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Inspiration: Cutting-edge research in the intersection of Library operating systems and Cloud Computing.
• Researching Unikernels, Building and configuring Unikernels, Working with tools like Kraftkit, Binary Compatibility, Testing and debugging, participating in International hackathons, open source community and collaboration

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• Linux System Administrator Trainee.
• Selected for the LiFT'23 scholarship under the Woman in Open Source category. Training covers linux systems fundamentals and usecases.

Jun 2023 – Jul 2023 · 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States

• I was selected remotely as a university student to attend Summer 2023 Oracle REACH workshops on UI/UX, and participated in discussions on various technical domains, and mock interview sessions with the Oracle US professional team- Team Leads

May 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Union City, California, United States · Remote

• I share my real life experiences with some flavor of poetry, STEM and skills.