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Anish Agarwal

CEO and Cofounder at Traversal

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Overview

Anish Agarwal is CEO and Cofounder at Traversal[1][3], a company building an AI site reliability engineer for enterprise production systems[2]. Agarwal's research interests center on causal machine learning and its application to complex engineering systems[2]. Agarwal holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT[11], an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Caltech[12], and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech[13]. Prior to founding Traversal in 2024[3], Agarwal worked as a Research Scientist at Amazon[5], a Machine Learning Researcher at Microsoft[7], and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing[6]. Agarwal is currently an Assistant Professor at Columbia University[4], where research focuses on causal machine learning[2].

Profile introduction
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I'm interested in how AI systems can understand cause and effect, not just patterns, and what it takes to apply those ideas to complex engineering systems. That interest led me to pursue doctoral research in causal machine learning at MIT, and to found Traversal, where we’ve built an AI site reliability engineer (SRE) for the enterprise. Our vision is self-driving production: production systems that can autonomously diagnose, remediate, and prevent failures. I'm also a Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Columbia University, where my research focuses on causal machine le…

Career history

  1. CEO and Cofounder2024 to presentTraversal
  2. Assistant Professor2023 to presentColumbia University
  3. Research Scientist2022 to 2023Amazon
  4. Postdoctoral Fellow2022 to 2022Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
  5. Machine Learning Researcher2021 to 2021Microsoft
  6. PHD Student2017 to 2021Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  7. Lead Machine Learning Engineer2016 to 2017IKASI
  8. Associate Consultant2015 to 2016The Boston Consulting Group

Education

  1. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at CaltechEducation
  3. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at CaltechEducation

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