Vik Paruchuri

Vik Paruchuri is the founder and CEO of Datalab, an AI startup building small, efficient foundation models for document intelligence. A self-taught ML engineer who majored in American History, he previously founded Dataquest - an online learning platform that taught data skills to over 1 million students. His open-source projects (Marker, Surya, Chandra OCR) have earned thousands of GitHub stars and benchmark-topping accuracy scores. He publishes 'The Vik Letter' newsletter covering semiconductors and tech.