Russell Kaplan is the Co-Founder & President at Cognition, makers of Devin and Windsurf. He previously led the Machine Learning organization at Scale AI, which acquired his computer vision startup, Helia, in 2020. Before that, Russell was a Senior ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He did his MS and BS in Computer Science at Stanford, where he started TreeHacks, Stanford's hackathon, and was a researcher in the Stanford Vision Lab, advised by Fei-Fei Li.