Short bio

Dr. Nazneen Rajani is cofounder and CEO of Collinear AI, which develops training data, evaluation tools, and realistic environments to help frontier labs rapidly improve their AI models. Her research spans model evaluation, alignment, and agent reliability. Previously, she was a research lead at Hugging Face and a senior research scientist at Salesforce Research. She holds a PhD in computer science from UT Austin.


Extended bio

Dr. Nazneen Rajani is cofounder and CEO of Collinear AI, which develops training data, evaluation tools, and realistic environments to help frontier labs rapidly improve their AI models. Her work examines how models learn from feedback, how their capabilities are measured, and why AI agents fail when faced with the complexity of real work.

Before founding Collinear, she was a research lead at Hugging Face and a senior research scientist at Salesforce Research. She is a coauthor of research including YC-Bench and TraitBasis, spanning long-term planning and simulations of human behavior. She holds a PhD in computer science from UT Austin and was named to MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35 list.


About Collinear AI

Collinear AI provides data to frontier labs for faster model improvement. The company develops challenging tasks, realistic environments, and rigorous evaluations that help frontier AI teams identify capability gaps, generate useful training data, and measure progress. Its work spans cybersecurity, software engineering, computer use, and complex agent behavior, combining off-the-shelf task libraries with research expertise to accelerate model improvement cycles.


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