Sanjay Ghemawat
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Discovery Loop
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 11 · founderDiscovery Loop · Round (unnamed) · Amount not reported (in talks)Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Discovery Loop
Previous
- Senior Fellow · Google
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Sanjay Ghemawat is one of four co-founders of Discovery Loop, a company building AI systems that automate experimental loops, starting with machine learning research. The company credits its founders' past work with systems including the Google File System, MapReduce, Bigtable and Spanner. He and Jeff Dean shared the 2012 ACM Prize in Computing for their work on Internet-scale distributed systems.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: discoveryloop.com ↗ · heidelberg-laureate-forum.org ↗
Selected work
- TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning ↗
The system design behind TensorFlow, for training and running machine learning models at scale.
Also on this record: Jeff Dean
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters ↗
A programming model for processing large datasets across clusters of machines.
Also on this record: Jeff Dean
Each byline was read on the paper itself. Only people on this record are named, not the full author list, and a shared byline does not say who did which part.
Founded
Discovery LoopScience models and AI scientists · 2026 · 2 rounds on record · Round (unnamed) Amount not reportedBackground: Google (distributed systems) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Jeff Dean, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals
Backed byRadical VenturesKhosla Ventures
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