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Luis Ceze
Founder of OctoAI
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Luis Ceze is the CEO of OctoAI and a Lazowska Endowed Professor at the University of Washington, with expertise in parallel computing, computer architecture, and high-performance computing. He has co-founded OctoAI, served as a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, and has a strong background in academia and industry, with a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and experience at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Work Experience
VP AI systems software
2024 - Current
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
Raised $4,095,000,000.00 from ARPA-E and DARPA.
Professor
2007
Co-founder and CEO
2019 - 2024
Efficiency, customizability and reliability for GenAI. https://octo.ai
OctoAI is an AI infrastructure platform designed to help developers run, tune, and scale generative AI models efficiently.
Raised $131,900,000.00 from Addition, Madrona, Amplify Partners and Tiger Global Management.
Venture Partner
2018 - 2024
Co-founder, and Technical Advisor
2008 - 2012
Research Assistant
2002 - 2007
Summer Research Intern
2001 - 2006
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
Engineer
2000 - 2001
Education
PhD
2002 - 2007
BS and MEng
1996 - 2001