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<h1 class="name">Vasu Raman</h1>
<p class="intro">It's all about the atoms now. My goal is to ship autonomous systems that manipulate the physical world.</p>
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<p>I'm an engineer and founder based in the Bay Area. My career has been a series of "firsts" in autonomy — I keep showing up early at companies and then building the thing that hasn't been built yet.</p>
<p>Most recently I co-founded <a href="https://sauron.systems" class="co" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sauron</a> with Kevin Hartz to build a new kind of home security — one that uses the full perception and autonomy stack of a self-driving car to protect people where they live. As CTO, I built the technical architecture, recruited the team, and took the company from zero to first customer deployments.</p>
<p>Before that, I spent four and a half years at <a href="https://zipline.com" class="co" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zipline</a>, where I led vehicle behaviors across their drone platforms. My team's work was the foundation for the FAA's first-ever authorization of commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone deliveries in the US. Before <a href="https://zipline.com" class="co" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zipline</a>, I was the first behavior prediction hire at <a href="https://nuro.ai" class="co" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Nuro</a>, where I helped enable the world's first unmanned commercial deliveries. And before that, I was an early engineer at <a href="https://zoox.com" class="co" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zoox</a>, leading decision planning for their first autonomous rides on public streets in San Francisco.</p>
<p>I have a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell and did a postdoc at Caltech before turning down R1 faculty offers to build things that ship. My research on formal methods for safe autonomy has been cited over 3,000 times.</p>
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<p>I once won Best Pun at the Bay Area Pun-Off.</p>
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