Vishnu Rajan 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 studied at Carnegie Mellon University where he served as CTO of RoboTutor, a team that won $1 million as a Global Learning XPRIZE finalist. He also worked as a Founding Software Engineer at Nooks, where he helped build over $2M in new pipeline, and conducted research at Stanford University and UCSF.

Vishnu has a verified email at cs.cmu.edu and has been recognized for his work in computer vision and machine learning. He developed handwriting recognition, text-to-speech, and machine learning capabilities for educational technology that reached hundreds of students in Tanzania.

As CTO of the RoboTutor team at Carnegie Mellon, Vishnu was among five finalists in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition. At Nooks, he was the second employee and first growth hire, contributing to product development and revenue growth.

RoboTutor's educational app was used by hundreds of students in Tanzania and received $1 million in XPRIZE funding. At Nooks, Vishnu helped the team transition from 1 meeting in their first month to building significant pipeline through innovative cold calling strategies.