Nazneen Rajani
Chief Executive Officer at Collinear AI
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolNazneen Rajani is the CEO of Collinear AI and a machine learning research leader with 13 years of experience building and stress-testing large language models and applied AI systems. She previously led research at Hugging Face and worked as a research scientist at Salesforce, bringing deep expertise in post-training alignment, explainable AI, and production-ready model evaluation. Her academic foundation includes a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UT Austin, where she explored multimodal NLU and XAI, and early internships at IBM and Qualcomm shaped her practical engineering approach. Based in Mountain View, she blends rigorous research instincts with founder-level product and operational experience, uniquely focused on bridging deployment realities with model safety and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Persian, English, Marathi, Urdu, Arabic, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (30)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
pandas10
machine-learning10
datasets10
huggingface10
speech10
ai10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
nlp10
numpy9
llm9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
collinear-ai/docs
Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Docs for Collinear's Simulation Lab
Contributions:18 reviews, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 11 months
simulation
nazneenrajani/XAI
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years
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