Rishi Siddharth

What I Do

Consultant at Zinnov on the Globalization Excellence team. I help technology companies and investors figure out where to build teams, how to run global capability centers, and which talent markets can support them. I also work on the private equity side: commercial diligence and screening tech companies.
I am currently pursuing a Master's in Data Science at Penn Engineering.
I also help build and implement internal tools to boost efficiency.
Helping run AI Wednesdays, a weekly lunch where colleagues show what they've built with AI.
I love writing about AI, technology, markets and geopolitics. My latest essay is We Are the Neanderthals. It argues that AI is a second intelligence grown from everything humans have written, and it will eventually outthink us. Like the Neanderthals, we won’t stay in control forever, so the job now is to shape what it values while we still can..

Before This

Graduated from American University in data science and international business, with a year at the London School of Economics.
Research with NASA on Artemis II Doppler tracking, and NSF/NSA-sponsored research using machine learning to predict which federal bills pass.
Worked at an AI startup evaluating language models on payroll systems, and built climate data infrastructure at LSE through the Transition Pathway Initiative.

Who I Am

I'm originally from Menlo Park, California, and now live in New York. I love soccer, reading and hiking. I spend most of my time thinking about AI, history and empires, markets, and how institutions handle new technology.

The world is changing rapidly, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

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