Glenn Ko
I am a researcher, engineer, and founder focused on transforming how people connect and interact with machines through intelligent, personalized interfaces that respond in real time. I have more than a decade of experience building systems in industry and academia, most recently as research faculty in computer science at Harvard, and earlier in my career I worked with teams at Samsung, IBM, and Qualcomm on the processors that power how machines see, hear, and understand, including chips that have shipped in more than 100 million units. In my work I care deeply about how AI feels from the user’s perspective, not just how it performs on benchmarks; I want systems that remember context, adapt to each person, and respond quickly enough that interacting with them feels conversational and fluid.Across my academic research and industry roles, I have gravitated toward problems that sit at the boundary between algorithms, systems, and user experience. A lot of my work has centered on making powerful models practical in latency sensitive settings, where responses need to arrive in tens of milliseconds rather than seconds. That means thinking about the full stack, from model design and serving infrastructure to how interfaces surface information and guide decisions, so that intelligence and responsiveness reinforce each other instead of competing.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Stochastic, I am building AI that feels like a real time collaborator for individuals and organizations. At Stochastic, I am rethinking the full stack for personalized AI, from algorithms and models through systems and hardware, spanning both cloud and edge deployments, with the goal of a unified platform for autonomous agents that can operate reliably in real world settings while remaining fast and compute efficient. In the long run, I want to help define a new generation of human AI interfaces where low latency, personalization, and trustworthy reasoning are all baked in, so that working with an AI system feels less like using a tool and more like working with a capable partner.