Robert Nishihara is one of the creators of Ray, the world’s leading open source AI compute engine. Ray is used by companies across the board from Canva to Runway to Coinbase to Pinterest to scale their machine learning training, inference, and data processing workloads. He is one of the co-founders of Anyscale, which is the company behind Ray. He did his PhD in machine learning and distributed systems in the computer science department at UC Berkeley. Before that, he majored in math at Harvard.