# Azalia Mirhoseini

> Azalia Mirhoseini is an Iranian-born AI researcher, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence - a frontier AI lab valued at $4 billion that uses AI to design better chips, which in turn train stronger AI. Best known for AlphaChip, the deep reinforcement learning system that now designs Google's TPUs and has compressed chip floorplanning from months to hours, she also co-invented the Mixture-of-Experts architecture underpinning GPT, Claude, and Gemini. With 20,000+ citations and a $335M-funded startup launched in under four months, she is closing the recursive loop between artificial intelligence and the hardware it runs on.

- **Role:** Founder & CTO at Ricursive Intelligence; Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
- **Organizations:** Ricursive Intelligence, Stanford University, Google DeepMind
- **From:** Iran
- **Nationality:** Iranian
- **Education:** BSc in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
- **Known for:** Co-invented AlphaChip - deep RL system that designs Google TPU chip layouts, compressing floorplanning from months to hours, Co-authored Mixture-of-Experts architecture (2017) now used in GPT, Claude, and Gemini with 5,433+ citations, Published landmark Nature paper on graph placement for chip design (2021)

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Received Best ECE Thesis Award from Rice University
- **2017** — Joined Google Brain as researcher; co-founded ML for Systems team
- **2017** — Co-authored landmark Mixture-of-Experts paper with 5,000+ citations
- **2019** — Named to MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35
- **2021** — Published AlphaChip Nature paper on deep RL for chip floorplanning
- **2021-2024** — Worked at Anthropic on Claude; contributed to Constitutional AI research
- **2022-2024** — Senior Staff Scientist at Google DeepMind; contributed to Gemini
- **2024** — Joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- **2024** — Founded Scaling Intelligence Lab at Stanford
- **2025** — Received Okawa Research Grant Award and Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
- **2025** — Spoke at NeurIPS 2025 on Test-Time Scaling
- **December 2025** — Co-founded Ricursive Intelligence with Anna Goldie; raised $35M seed at $750M valuation led by Sequoia Capital
- **January 2026** — Ricursive Intelligence raised $300M Series A at $4B valuation

## Achievements

- Co-invented AlphaChip - deep RL system that designs Google TPU chip layouts, compressing floorplanning from months to hours
- Co-authored Mixture-of-Experts architecture (2017) now used in GPT, Claude, and Gemini with 5,433+ citations
- Published landmark Nature paper on graph placement for chip design (2021)
- Named to MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2019)
- 20,000+ total research citations; H-index of 42
- Co-founded Ricursive Intelligence reaching $4B valuation in under 2 months from launch
- Raised $335M total funding for Ricursive Intelligence within 4 months of founding
- Designed 4+ generations of Google TPUs and data center CPUs using AI
- Pioneering researcher in LLM test-time scaling and AI self-improvement
- Best ECE Thesis Award from Rice University (2015)
- Okawa Research Grant Award (2025)
- Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award (2025)

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — TechCrunch covered how Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in just 4 months
- **2026-01** — Ricursive Intelligence raised $300M Series A at $4B post-money valuation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and others
- **2025-12** — Co-founded Ricursive Intelligence with Anna Goldie; raised $35M seed round led by Sequoia Capital at $750M valuation
- **2025-12** — Spoke at NeurIPS 2025 on 'Test-Time Scaling, A Foundation for AI Self-Improvement'
- **2025** — Received Okawa Research Grant Award and Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
- **2024** — Joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor of CS; founded Scaling Intelligence Lab

## Links

- Website: https://www.azaliamirhoseini.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azalia-mirhoseini-a5308522
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/azaliamirh

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