Vinitra Swamy

Vinitra Swamy is the CEO and co-founder of Scholé AI, a AI for education research spinoff of EPFL and UC Berkeley, focused on personalized enterprise upskilling for the AI era. Team Scholé is co-designing their AI-native learning platform in paid partnerships with several billion dollar enterprises, and has recently raised an over-subscribed pre-seed round. Vinitra has built and deployed systems at massive scale. At Microsoft AI, Vinitra was a lead engineer on the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), deploying machine learning infrastructure and models reaching billions of users worldwide in collaboration with over 30 leading companies (Nvidia, Meta, Amazon, IBM). Earlier at UC Berkeley, she helped scale the university’s flagship data science course from 100 students to 1,700 in person and 60,000 online, with the curriculum now adopted by more than 60 universities globally. Vinitra earned her PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, where her research on explainable AI and personalized education at scale was co-advised by the ML for Education Lab and the Machine Learning and Optimization Lab. Her work has received EPFL’s Best Computer Science Thesis Award, multiple best paper awards, and has been featured in over 20 news articles. In collaboration with Scholé, Vinitra is now teaching faculty for Harvard’s new AI Intensive, which has been recognized by Forbes as the #1 Agentic AI program for 2026, reaching corporate leadership around the world. She has also lectured data science and machine learning at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, and holds the record for youngest M.S. graduate from the UC Berkeley EECS department at 20 years old.