Russell Kaplan

Russell Kaplan is the co-founder and president of Cognition AI, an applied AI lab known for developing Devin, an autonomous AI software engineering agent. He previously served as director of engineering and ML at Scale AI, which acquired his computer vision startup Helia in 2020, and before that was a senior machine learning scientist on Tesla's Autopilot team, where he created the HydraNet multitask neural network. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he conducted research in the Stanford Vision Lab under Fei-Fei Li. He is best known for leading the development of AI software engineering tools at Cognition after a career spanning autonomous driving and machine learning infrastructure.