Faculty & Leadership
Dr. Raymond Solis
Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer
Raymond is a former tenured professor of computer science who spent 18 years studying deep learning systems and distributed optimization. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, holds two patents on distributed training algorithms, and serves on the editorial boards of three academic journals. He leads UTexas's research lab and maintains an active publishing schedule.
Dr. Catherine Yue
Co-Founder & CEO
Catherine is an ML systems researcher turned entrepreneur. She held faculty positions at two leading computer science departments before co-founding UTexas, and her work on efficient inference in large language models has been cited over 3,000 times. She oversees company strategy, client relationships, and the UTexas Academy curriculum.
Dr. Henrik Lindqvist
Head of ML Engineering
Henrik leads the engineering team that translates research into production ML frameworks. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Oxford and spent five years as an ML infrastructure engineer at a European AI lab. He is the architect of UTexas's distributed training library and a frequent invited speaker at MLSys and NeurIPS.
Prof. Amara Diallo
Director of the Academy
Amara runs UTexas Academy, designing curricula and leading instructor recruitment. She is a former associate professor of computer science who has taught over 2,000 graduate students across three universities. Her course on ML systems design is consistently rated among the top professional development programs in machine learning.
Jonathan Reeves
VP of Technology
Jonathan oversees UTexas's technology infrastructure, including the hosted experimentation platform and production deployment pipelines. Before UTexas, he was a senior engineering manager at an AI research company where he built the training and evaluation infrastructure used by over 100 researchers. He holds a master's in computer science from Carnegie Mellon.