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Vijay Vasudevan

Vijay Vasudevan is a co-founder of Mintive, formerly MintMCP, a company that offers governance for AI agents and MCPs. He co-wrote the 2016 OSDI paper on TensorFlow, the large-scale machine learning system. From 2011 to 2023 he worked at Google, on Google Brain and Waymo. His papers NASNet, AutoAugment and MnasNet searched for network designs and augmentation strategies. He earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and received the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2012.

Now at
Mintive
Works
45
Citations
55,564
h-index
28

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2011

    A Carnegie Mellon doctorate

    He completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011, advised by David Andersen.

  2. 2011–2023

    Google Brain and Waymo

    He works at Google from 2011 to 2023, on Google Brain and Waymo.

  3. 2012

    The SCS dissertation award

    In 2012 his dissertation on energy-efficient clusters with wimpy nodes receives the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award.

  4. 2016

    The TensorFlow system paper

    He co-writes TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning, published at OSDI in 2016.

  5. 2018

    The NASNet architecture

    He co-writes Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition, published at CVPR in 2018. The paper searches for an architectural building block on a small dataset and transfers it to a larger dataset.

  6. 2019

    AutoAugment and MnasNet

    He co-writes AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Strategies From Data, published at CVPR in 2019. He also co-writes MnasNet: Platform-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Mobile, published at CVPR in 2019.

  7. Since 2023

    Co-founding MintMCP

    He co-founds MintMCP in 2023, an enterprise governance company for AI agents and MCPs.

  8. As of October 2026

    Co-founding Mintive

    The company formerly known as MintMCP now operates as Mintive, and he is one of its co-founders.

Sources and credits

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  1. Vijay Vasudevan vijay.vasu.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning research.google. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. [1707.07012] Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Strategies From Data openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. MnasNet: Platform-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Mobile openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. About Mintive: Infrastructure for the agentic enterprise mintmcp.com. Checked 15 October 2026.