Vijay Karunamurthy

Vijay Karunamurthy is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Scale AI, where he works to democratize the capabilities of Generative AI and Large Language Models, partnering with large model providers, governments, and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Scale, Vijay was a Director of Engineering and Machine Learning at Apple and Google, where he worked on applications of AI for personalizing human interfaces. Vijay was an early employee at YouTube, and Head of Search and Discovery after the Google acquisition. He also cofounded a startup focused on ML for video with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, as part of Google Ventures. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.