Lakshya Agrawal is the lead author of GEPA and a PhD Student at Berkeley AI Research. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a research fellow at Microsoft.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) is the most talent-dense community of engineers and researchers in the world. They’ve hosted events across the Bay Area, including both Stanford and Berkeley. Past event co-hosts include partners at Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and one of the first ten employees at Cursor. Delta Institute also hosts the Delta Podcast, a series of video interviews with top researchers/engineers in order to help share their experiences and reach a broader international audience.