Our Founders

Towaki was previously a research scientist at NVIDIA, working on high-performance systems for machine learning and graphics.

His research has been published in top conferences like CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH and has been cited over 3500 times. He has been awarded the Royal Bank of Canada's Borealis AI Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to the field.

He has also authored popular open source software for high-performance ML, with collectively over 8000 stars.

Towaki is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo (Computer Science).

Allen was previously a tech lead at fast-growing startups like Tome and Embark Trucks, working on LLM applications and computer vision for self driving.

He also brings experience working on large-scale data science infrastructure from LinkedIn, Meta, and the Royal Bank of Canada (Borealis AI).

In a previous life, Allen was a researcher on theoretical machine learning and operations research, with papers presented at SIAM and ICML.

Allen is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo (Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization).