Daniel Grant
Founder, Outworld Labs (YC F26)
I’m building Outworld Labs (YC Fall 2026). More at launch.
Before this I passed through Berkeley AI Research, Google DeepMind, NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, Microsoft, and the Oxford Robotics Institute, among others.
I studied EECS at UC Berkeley and mathematics and computer science at Bowdoin College, with a year at Oxford in between. The rest of the time I’m climbing, running, rowing, or photographing wildlife.
Past
- Berkeley AI Research · ARPL — learning-based control for fixed-wing flight 2026
- Google DeepMind — AlphaEvolve, algorithm discovery with Gemini 2026
- Berkeley AI Research · Hybrid Robotics — continual learning for legged-robot control 2025 – 26
- Machine Learning at Berkeley — fellow 2025 – 26
- LatchBio — benchmarking an AI agent for biology 2025
- NASA Ames Research Center — CFD & learned airfoil optimization, NAS Division 2023 – 25
- Microsoft — financial anomaly prediction, Cloud + AI 2024
- Oxford Robotics Institute — decoding language from brain recordings 2023 – 24
Education
- University of California, Berkeley — M.Eng., EECS (robotics & embedded software) · Fung Excellence Scholar 2025 – 26
- Bowdoin College — B.A. mathematics · B.A. computer science · Phi Beta Kappa 2021 – 25
- University of Oxford — visiting year, mathematics & computer science · First Class 2023 – 24
Contact
- dgrant (at) berkeley (dot) edu
- X
- x.com/danieljgrant
- GitHub
- github.com/DJRGVC
- linkedin.com/in/daniel-grant
- Photography
- danielgrant.photos