Me

Born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia. Graduated IB class of Quantum College in 2013. Then majored in Computer Science at UCL . Prof. Lourdes Agapito and Dr. Adrián Peñate Sánchez supervised my final-year bachelors project.

In 2016, became a PhD student at Princeton University with Gordon Wu fellowship. Worked on Connectomics advised by Sebastian Seung at Princeton Nueroscience Institute.

Got to Y Combinator in 2018, moved to Bay Area and started Activeloop, formerly known as Snark AI. Currently working on building Database for AI.

Publications

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Buniatyan, Davit. "Hyper: Distributed Cloud Processing for Large-Scale Deep Learning Tasks." In 2019 Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT), pp. 27-32. IEEE, 2019. PDF
Mitchell, Eric, Stefan Keselj, Sergiy Popovych, Davit Buniatyan, and H. Sebastian Seung. "Siamese encoding and alignment by multiscale learning with self-supervision." arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02643 (2019). PDF
Popovych, Sergiy, Davit Buniatyan, Aleksandar Zlateski, Kai Li, and H. Sebastian Seung. "Pznet: efficient 3D convnet inference on manycore CPUs." In Science and Information Conference, pp. 369-383. Springer, Cham, 2019. PDF
Buniatyan, Davit, Sergiy Popovych, Dodam Ih, Thomas Macrina, Jonathan Zung, and H. Sebastian Seung. "Weakly supervised deep metric learning for template matching." In Science and Information Conference, pp. 39-58. Springer, Cham, 2019. PDF
Adewale, Oluwatosin, Alex Beatson, Davit Buniatyan, Jason Ge, Mikhail Khodak, Holden Lee, Niranjani Prasad et al. "Pixie: a social chatbot." Alexa prize proceedings (2017). PDF

Featured

Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications Techcrunch in 2021
Snark AI looks to help companies get on-demand access to idle GPUs Techcrunch in 2018
Alexa, be more human CNET. A chat with Pixie, Princeton University's socialbot Youtube, 2017
Newsly Hack Is Tinder For News Articles, Techcrunch in 2014