Karthik is the CEO of Persist AI, a company that’s using AI x Robotics to accelerate drug formulation development. He's trained as a formulation scientist with experience working on sustained drug delivery to the brain. Through his career he has worked across AI for Drug Discovery at Recursion, Robotic lab automation at Zymergen, and Product development at BioRad. Persist AI is a venture backed company supported by YCombinator, Shimadzu, and Eli Lilly.