Gautam Mittal

I am an engineer and researcher based in San Francisco. I am interested in deep learning, systems, computer- and human-generated art, jazz performance, bicycles, and the past and future of technology.

Previously, I was part of the founding team at Contextual AI building retrieval-augmented language systems. I worked on the research team where I focused on large-scale training, benchmarking, algorithms, data, and infrastructure for language models and retrieval systems. I've also worked on vision foundation models at Tesla AI, music generation at Google Brain (now DeepMind), learned query optimizers and SkyPilot at the Berkeley Sky Computing Lab (formerly known as the RISE Lab), marketplace products at Stripe, and machine learning at Edmodo.

I studied foundation models and jazz improvisation at Stanford, learning from an amazing group of researchers and musicians. Before that, I earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.