The team
Co-founder · ceo
Connor Gilmore
Connor was a founding member of the Vanderbilt Digital Imaging Lab and a recipient of Vanderbilt's Chancellor's Launch Grant for entrepreneurship. A Stanford graduate and Chappell Lougee Scholar, he later earned his MBA at Vanderbilt. He works across marketing, design, strategy, business development, and team building. As CEO, he brings Nanofold the commercial half of the equation — turning research that works into a company that sells, hires, and grows.
Co-founder · cto
Soheil Kolouri
Soheil leads the MINT Lab at Vanderbilt, where he's an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Before academia he ran DARPA-scale AI programs at HRL Laboratories, serving as PI on Learning with Less Labels and leading nearly $15M in research as principal investigator. His work on optimal transport for machine learning won an NSF CAREER Award, and he holds over 20 US patents. As CTO, he brings a decade of shipping systems under hard real-world constraints — latency, labels, compute, and everything you don't have enough of.
Co-founder · cso
Hamed Pirsiavash
Hamed is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Davis and one of the most-cited researchers in efficient computer vision, with 13,000+ citations and an Associate Editor seat at IEEE TPAMI. He trained at MIT with Antonio Torralba and earned his Ph.D. at UC Irvine, and his students now build AI at Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Waymo. As CSO, he sets the research agenda at [Company]: making large models small enough to run anywhere, years before the rest of the field gets there.
Technical Sales engineer
Kevin Chen
Kevin brings a rare mix of research and product engineering: machine unlearning work on the research side, full-stack building on the other. He previously worked in product engineering at Patreon, where he built design systems used across the client platform. At Nanofold he works between sales and engineering, digging into where customers are actually hurting and designing compression solutions around it.
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