Kaahan Radia
Co-founder @ Keyframe Labs (YC P26) | Foundation models for lifelike, real-time AI avatars
Experience
Career
2026Keyframe Labs
Co-founderCo-Founder · 2026 – Present
2021Zipline
Perception Engineer · South San Francisco, California, United States · 2021 – 2025
- 2017
RISELab
Undergraduate Research Assistant · 2017 – 2020
2020Marqeta, Inc
Data Science and Security Intern · Oakland, California, United States · 2020
2019Ericsson
ML Research Engineer (Computer Vision) · Santa Clara / San Francisco · 2019
2018Ericsson
ML Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning) · Santa Clara, CA · 2018
Bio
Kaahan is co-founder and CTO of Keyframe Labs, building the world's first photoreal, emotionally expressive AI humans for real-time video agents. Previously, he spent five years at Zipline as a Perception Engineer, building their camera-based detect-and-avoid system for autonomous drone operations. His work spans computer vision and applied ML, with research at CVPR and JAMA. B.A. CS, UC Berkeley.