Shivon Zilis
Director of Operations and Special Projects at Neuralink
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Operations and Special Projects
2017 - Current
Neuralink develops a brain machine interface that provides solutions for those with paralysis.
Raised $686,241,676.00 from Bull & Bear, Roman Smolevskiy and Raison.
Fellow
2015
Current fellow and mentor. Worked with Ajay Agrawal to create the artificial intelligence and neural interfaces streams. http://www.creativedestructionlab.com/
Board Member
2020 - 2023
Advisor
2016 - 2019
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.
Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.
Project Director
2017 - 2019
AI projects (Autopilot and chip design teams)
Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.
Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Board Of Directors
2015 - 2018
Reinforcement learning was pioneered at University of Alberta and it's since become a hub of machine intelligence talent.
Board Of Directors
2017 - 2018
The Vector Institute is an independent, non-profit research institution dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence.
Partner
2012 - 2018
We're an early stage venture capital fund. I've been laser focused on machine intelligence for the last four years... particularly passionate about those solving specific problems in enterprise intelligence or industries (e.g., agriculture, health, transportation and logistics). We've invested in 40+ machine intelligence powered companies to date. More on Beta: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual. My musings on machine intelligene: www.shivonzilis.com
Charter Member
2014 - 2018
C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment.
Board Member
2012 - 2013
Chief Adventurer
2011 - 2012
Internal incubation and partnerships. We built businesses in the education, conference, and data-as-a-service industries.