3x founder
Kiara Nirghin
Building | Stanford (AI) | YC | Thiel Fellow | TIME Magazine’s Most Influential | Google Science / AI Winner | Forbes AI
Experience
Career
2026Stealth AI Startup
Building · 2026 – Present
2025Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Advisor · 2025 – Present
2024Colossal Biosciences
Board Member · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2022Thiel Capital
Co-founderThiel Fellow · 2022 – Present
2025Big Think
Editorial Contributor · 2025 – Present
2019Google
Impact Fund Board (AI) · 2019 – Present
2023776 Foundation
Co-founder776 Fellow · 2023 – Present
2023Chima
Co-founderCo-Founder and CTO (aka AI Maximalist) · San Francisco, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2018Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Stanford AI Lab · Stanford, California, United States · 2018 – 2023
2018Stanford University
Senior Researcher · 2018 – 2023
2019Stanford University
Computer Science (AI) Instructor · 2019 – 2022
2018Meta
Board Member, Advanced Tech Sustainability Board · 2018 – 2021
2020Meta
AI Research Engineer · 2020
Bio
Award-winning Stanford AI researcher, engineer, and Thiel Fellow. Winner of the Google Science Grand Prize and one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential.