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Raaz Dwivedi

Also known as Raaz RSK Dwivedi

Raaz Dwivedi is a researcher whose work spans causal inference, reinforcement learning, and AI agents for sequential decision-making. He studied electrical engineering at IIT Bombay, completed an EECS Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, and held a FODSI postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and MIT. At Cornell, he researches AI agents for sequential decision-making and co-founded Traversal, which builds an AI agent for software reliability. His research includes counterfactual inference for adaptive experiments and ORCA-bench for on-call coding agents; he won the 2024 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award. As of October 2026, he is an assistant professor in Cornell’s Operations Research and Information Engineering department, on leave, and a Traversal co-founder.

Now at
Cornell University and Traversal
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Timeline

  1. 2010–2014

    Electrical engineering at IIT Bombay

    He studies electrical engineering at IIT Bombay from 2010 to 2014, with Vivek Borkar as his thesis adviser, and earns a B.Tech.

  2. 2015–2021

    A Berkeley doctorate

    From 2015 to 2021, he completes a Ph.D. in EECS at UC Berkeley, co-advised by Martin Wainwright and Bin Yu.

  3. 2021–2023

    FODSI postdoctoral fellowship

    From 2021 to 2023, he holds a FODSI postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), co-advised by Susan Murphy and Devavrat Shah.

  4. 2022

    Counterfactual inference in sequential experiments

    In 2022, he coauthors “Counterfactual inference in sequential experiments,” which develops inference guarantees for unit-level counterfactual means in adaptive treatment experiments.

  5. January 2024

    Cornell assistant professor

    In January 2024, he joins Cornell’s Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell Tech as an assistant professor. His research spans causal inference and reinforcement learning, with a focus on AI agents for sequential decision-making.

  6. 2024

    Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award

    In 2024, he wins the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, given to outstanding junior researchers in Bayesian statistics.

  7. June 2025

    Co-founding Traversal

    In June 2025, he co-founds Traversal, an AI startup for detecting and resolving software outages. The company raises a $48 million seed and Series A round.

  8. July 2026

    ORCA-bench for on-call agents

    In July 2026, he coauthors ORCA-bench, a benchmark for general-purpose coding agents in production-style on-call work. It pairs 1,079 root-cause-analysis tasks with six days of metrics, logs, and traces from a simulated microservice system, with full application source access.

  9. As of October 2026

    Cornell and Traversal roles

    As of October 2026, he is an assistant professor in Cornell’s Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering and is on leave. He is also a co-founder of Traversal, whose AI Site Reliability Engineer automates root-cause identification and remediation for production and software outages.

Career

  1. Since 2025TraversalCo-founder
  2. Since 2024Cornell UniversityAssistant professor
  3. 2021–2023Harvard UniversityPostdoctoral fellow
  4. 2021–2023Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral fellow

Education

  1. 2021University of California, BerkeleyPhD
  2. 2014IIT BombayB.Tech.

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  1. Raaz RSK Dwivedi raazdwivedi.github.io. Checked 26 October 2026.
  2. Raaz Dwivedi (on leave) | Cornell Duffield Engineering duffield.cornell.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  3. [2202.06891] Counterfactual inference in sequential experiments arxiv.org. Checked 26 October 2026.
  4. Cornell Tech - Raaz Dwivedi tech.cornell.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  5. Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award j-isba.github.io. Checked 26 October 2026.
  6. Faculty-led startup is using AI to reimagine software reliability | Cornell Chronicle news.cornell.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  7. [2607.28545] ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? arxiv.org. Checked 26 October 2026.