Rajan Vaish, Ph.D.

I'm Rajan. I'm the cofounder, CEO, and CPO at Easel AI, where I build consumer AI products that create and remix pictures with friends. I have over ten years of product experience in AI, AR, and smart glasses from roles at Easel, Snap, and in research at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz. Previously I did research and internships at places like PARC, Microsoft Research, IBM, and worked on crowdsourcing and HCI projects during my PhD. I live and work out of Los Angeles.

And my hot take is AI-first social apps will make curated profiles obsolete and make everyone finally awkwardly honest.