About
Howdy — I'm Hassaan Raza.
Who I am
Howdy, I'm Hassaan, the CEO and Co-Founder of Tavus, an AI research lab focused on human computing, the pursuit of teaching machines how to be human. My background is in computer science, and before Tavus I spent many years working as a software engineer, and occasionally a PM. These days I'm mostly in San Francisco at the Tavus office in South Park, working with an absurdly good team. Come visit to see the vintage computing museum, or the C4 corvette.
Work history
2021 — PresentTavus
Leading a team building frontier human-simulation models and invisible human–computer interfaces.
2019 — 2021Google
Shilling GCP and doing some ML stuff.
2018Apple
Led security/OS projects for macOS as EPM/SWE.
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Started a product studio, worked across a few industries as a SWE, went to UT for CS.
2014 — 2015HP (Hewlett-Packard)
Started at HP at the ripe age of 16. It almost turned me away from tech — mostly because I was an edgy teen, probably.
Interests
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Random press things that are likely out of date
- Keynote at Madhats AI Summit — The Art of Conversation
- MIT Tech Review — AI can now create a replica of your personality
- The Tech Trek — Can Tech Make Work Feel Like Less Work
- Infinite Curiosity — Digital Replicas That Can Have Real Conversations
- Sacra — Building an AI Avatar developer platform
- TechCrunch — Tavus Raises $18M Series A
- Forbes — 30 Under 30, Hassaan Raza
- Sequoia — Partnering with Tavus
- Robots for the Rest of Us — When You Can't Talk to Me, Talk to "Me"
- SiliconANGLE — Tavus introduces a family of AI models for real-time human–AI interaction