Hi! I’m an A.I. researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, based in San Francisco.

• In 2026 I co-founded Elorian (with Andrew Dai and Yinfei Yang), where we are building frontier visual thinking models
• From 2021-2026 I was an assistant professor at Harvard and PI of the SAFR AI Lab, where our research focused on problems in data-centric AI and AI safety.
• From 2025-2026 I was on sabbatical at Google as a research scientist (Gemini Data core team, Gemini 2.5)
• From 2016-2021 I was co-founder & CTO of Welligence. After bootstrapping to 60+ FTEs, in 2024 we sold a minority stake in the business. Since then the business has continued to grow significantly, which I am proud to support as a board member.
• In 2020 I received my PhD in machine learning from UPenn, under the guidance of the legendary Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
• I got my undergrad degree at Harvard where I got a crash course in pure math through math 55, in startups as an intern at the device company WHOOP, and in squash as a benchwarmer on a perennial collegiate powerhouse. I also got to hang out with my twin brother which was pretty cool.
  
  

I occasionally angel invest in early stage ai startups, including etched.ai, cambio.ai, haize labs (acq. beacon software), nof1, and some others. If you want to get in touch, I’m seth at elorian dot ai.