About
Howdy — I'm Hassaan Raza.
Who I am
I'm 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 years as a software engineer (and a PM, though being a SWE was always more my vibe — I like building). These days I'm mostly in San Francisco at the Tavus office in South Park, working with an absurdly good team. Come visit.
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
- 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