Vishnu R. Tejus is Founder and CTO at 10x Science (YC W26), a biotech startup enabling biopharmaceutical development to keep pace with AI-powered drug discovery. He specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and reasoning.

Vishnu was CTO of Carnegie Mellon's RoboTutor team, which became a finalist in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition and was awarded $1M. He also served as a Founding Software Engineer at Nooks, where he helped build over $2M in new pipeline and co-founded the GTM team.

Vishnu has a verified email at Carnegie Mellon University (cs.cmu.edu) and completed programs at Stanford's d.school in Engineering Design and CMU's LearnLab in Educational Data Mining. He has published research in AI, machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging, and won 1st Place in the NASA Climate Resilience Data Challenge.

At Carnegie Mellon, Vishnu developed handwriting recognition, text-to-speech, computer vision, and machine learning capabilities for educational technology. He has served on the scientific program committee for MLCB (Machine Learning in Computational Biology) at Stanford and worked at UCSF and University of Washington.

10x Science opened and operates an animal lab in South San Francisco, achieved proof-of-concept in mice, built a multimodal AI model, and submitted two provisional patents within 1.5 months while using less than 50% of YC funding. The RoboTutor app was used by hundreds of students in Tanzania and was the only student-professor team to reach XPRIZE finals.