Karan Goel is the CEO of Cartesia, a startup building multimodal foundation models to power the next-generation of real-time applications. During his PhD, Karan contributed to the development of state space models, a new architecture for foundation models that Cartesia is now pioneering. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, a Masters in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a recipient of the Siebel Scholarship.