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Joshua Dillon

Joshua Dillon

Finding obvious-in-hindsight answers to never-knew-you-always-had questions.

2026Co-founder· rekursiv.ai
Founder · since 2026
Company
rekursiv.ai
Role
Co-Founder
current
Stage
—
no public source
Raised
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no public source
Based
Mountain View, CA
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work history
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rekursiv.ai

Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

  • rekursiv.ai logo

    rekursiv.ai

    Co-founder

    Co-Founder · Mountain View, CA · 2026 – Present

    2026
  • Self-employed

    Sabbatical · Mountain View, CA · 2025

    2025
  • Sabbatical

    Mountain View, California, United States · 2025

    2025
  • Luma AI logo

    Luma AI

    Staff Research Scientist · Palo Alto, CA · 2024 – 2025

    2024
  • Google DeepMind logo

    Google DeepMind

    Staff Research Scientist · Mountain View, California, United States · 2024

    2024
  • Google logo

    Google

    Staff Research Scientist · Mountain View, California, United States · 2011 – 2024

    2011
  • Georgia Institute of Technology logo

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Research Assistant · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2009 – 2011

    2009
  • Microsoft Research

    Intern · Redmond, Washington, United States · 2009

    2009
  • Purdue University logo

    Purdue University

    Lecturer · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2008

    2008
  • Purdue University logo

    Purdue University

    Research Assistant · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2006 – 2008

    2006
  • Purdue University logo

    Purdue University

    Teaching Assistant · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2007

    2007
  • Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab

    Summer Scholar · Walnut Creek, California, United States · 2006

    2006
  • IBM logo

    IBM

    Extreme Blue Intern · Austin, Texas, United States · 2005

    2005
  • ThermoAnalytics Inc

    Intern · Calumet, Michigan, United States · 2005

    2005
  • IBM logo

    IBM

    Intern · Rochester, Minnesota, United States · 2003

    2003
  • IBM logo

    IBM

    Intern · Rochester, Minnesota, United States · 2002

    2002
  • Michigan Department of Transportation

    Intern · Cass City, Michigan, United States · 2002

    2002

Bio

Ex-Google, Ex-Deepmind, Ex-LumaAI staff research scientist for a combined total of 14 years. Led foundational model pre-training at Luma AI. Creator of TensorFlow Probability (1M+ downloads / month), built Veo's first prototype, contributor to Gemini and VideoPoet (ICML 2024 Best Paper). 11,600+ citations. Now co-founder of rekursiv.ai, automating the science of ML research.