San Francisco, CA
Email: abhay.venkatesh[at]gmail[dot]com
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Abhay is the tech and product lead for Frontier AI at Anduril. He joined in 2019 under the CEO, built Anduril’s early perception, autonomy, and platform capabilities, and started its frontier AI initiative to train and deploy frontier models for national security.
Abhay started Anduril’s frontier AI initiative and leads its tech and product: the roadmap, the compute and training infrastructure used to post-train models for national security, and the programs that put those models to work.
Programs: Thunderforge, Anduril’s OpenAI partnership, and CDAO’s Edge Data Mesh for generative AI.
Abhay worked directly with CEO Brian Schimpf to co-invent and patent foundational systems for Lattice for Mission Autonomy, which enables teams of autonomous systems to carry out complex missions under human supervision. Lattice for Mission Autonomy has since been flight-tested on Fury (YFQ-44A), Anduril’s aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
Abhay worked on Lattice Command & Control (C2) and designed the tasking APIs, which let operators and software create, route, and track tasks across assets and teams of assets.
RubricRefine: Improving Tool-Use Agent Reliability with Training-Free Pre-Execution Refinement
Will LeVine, Brendan Evers, Sam Saltwick, Abhay Venkatesh
arXiv preprint 2026
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Generating Accurate Pseudo-labels in Semi-Supervised Learning and Avoiding Overconfident Predictions via Hermite Polynomial Activations
Vishnu Suresh Lokhande, Songwong Tasneeyapant, Abhay Venkatesh, Sathya N. Ravi, Vikas Singh
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020
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Optimizing Nondecomposable Data Dependent Regularizers via Lagrangian Reparameterization Offers Significant Performance and Efficiency Gains
Sathya N. Ravi, Abhay Venkatesh, Glenn M. Fung, Vikas Singh
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020
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Full publication list on Google Scholar.
Abhay Venkatesh, Brian W. Schimpf, Elston Tochip, Jared Newman, Joshua John Bennett, Nikhil Reddy, Samuel R. Elie
Alongside his work at Anduril, Abhay angel invests in AI and frontier technology. His investments include Mercor, Factory AI, Saronic, OpenAI, Fluidstack, American Terawatt, Cartesia, Airbound, Aalo, Sabi, Novig, Trajectory, Reactor, and Irving. He has also scouted for Sequoia, Greylock, Index Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures.