# Dev Chheda

![Dev Chheda](/resources/cognition/portraits/dev-chheda.webp)

Building Devin @ Cognition | EECS @ MIT  
Cognition  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Software Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Apr 2024
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Researcher at Low-Energy Autonomy and Navigation (LEAN) Group, MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: MIT CSAIL; MIT (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7
- X: @devmchheda
- GitHub: https://github.com/vedadehhc
- Website: https://vedadehhc.github.io/
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Public headline says "Building Devin @ Cognition | EECS @ MIT". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7)
- Currently building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer, at Cognition; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7)
- Previous roles include Researcher at MIT Parallel Algorithms Group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); Researcher at Low-Energy Autonomy and Navigation (LEAN) Group at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics; Laboratory Assistant for MIT 6.191 (6.004) at MIT EECS; Quantitative Trader Intern at Five Rings; Silicon Design Engineer Intern at AMD; Researcher at MIT Digital Humanities Lab at MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Researcher at MIT App Inventor; Founder, CEO at Mad Mobile Apps. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7)

## Experience
- Software Engineer at Cognition (Apr 2024 - Present): Building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer.
- Researcher at MIT Parallel Algorithms Group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Feb 2023 - May 2024): Contributing to the development of a generalized framework for parallel algorithms for spatial grid-based clustering. Developing sequential baselines for the Grid-based Density-Isoline Clustering (GDILC) algorithm to verify correctness and measure performance overheads and work efficiency of parallel implementations. Optimizing parallel implementations of clustering algorithms to improve performance in practical, limited-scale use cases. Exploring the design of novel parallel grid-based clustering algorithms by combining key ideas from existing algorithms.
- Researcher at Low-Energy Autonomy and Navigation (LEAN) Group at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (May 2023 - Oct 2023): Co-designing algorithms and hardware to design energy efficient solutions to localization and mapping tasks 
Benchmarking algorithms for SLAM and multi-view stereo tasks to analyze memory-efficiency and throughput
- Laboratory Assistant for MIT 6.191 (6.004) at MIT EECS - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Sep 2022 - May 2023): Teaching topics in computer architecture, digital logic, operating systems to students during office hours.
- Quantitative Trader Intern at Five Rings - New York, New York, United States (Jan 2023 - Jan 2023): Participated in mock trading to obtain familiarity with how the market operates at the level of individual orders. Competed in automated trading strategy and design competition and in an complex zero-sum game.
- Silicon Design Engineer Intern at AMD - Austin, Texas, United States (May 2022 - Aug 2022): Working with AMD’s Fast Platform Modeling Team to develop the SimNow simulator software for pre-silicon validation.
- Researcher at MIT Digital Humanities Lab at MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021): Using Python, Django, JavaScript, and React to design and develop a full-stack Sonification Toolkit, which enables artists and musicians to transform non-audio data into audio in aesthetically meaningful ways. 
Using Git for version control, team collaboration, feature planning, and code review.
- Researcher at MIT App Inventor - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021): Using Java, C, C++, and REST API to develop novel support for using IOT devices over Wi-Fi with MIT App Inventor, an Android app development and design software. 
Using Git for version control, feature planning, and code review.
- Founder, CEO at Mad Mobile Apps - Charlotte Metro (Aug 2018 - Dec 2021): Developed mobile apps, games, and websites with 500,000+ collective downloads and web hits
- Software Engineer Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Jul 2021 - Aug 2021): Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality software development: Used C# and Unity to design and implement the new Motion Constraints mode for interacting with objects into NASA’s Mixed Reality Exploration Toolkit (MRET), an AR/VR software for science and engineering use cases.
Used Git and Azure DevOps for version control, large scale team collaboration, feature planning, and code review.
- Research Intern at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) (Jun 2020 - Dec 2020): Developed new, innovative methods for shape processing, classification, and analysis with integrations into machine learning pipelines and gradient descent optimization algorithms using MATLAB, Python, and Mathematica
Research recognized at Regeneron Science Talent Search and as Grand Award winner at ISEF 2021

## Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - (Sep 2021 - May 2025): Concentration in AI and Systems

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7
- https://api.github.com/users/vedadehhc
- https://github.com/vedadehhc
- https://x.com/devmchheda
- https://vedadehhc.github.io/
- https://x.com/devmchheda/status/2061923818743230888
- https://x.com/devmchheda/status/2056467904804348297
- https://x.com/devmchheda/status/2065473170354868735
- https://x.com/devmchheda/status/1956085151005598192
- https://x.com/devmchheda/status/1951358031209652725
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dev-chheda-6497bb1a7?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAADBZzNkBmvWqVb77WCfGlqba2jRiSW3NO0A


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/dev-chheda · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people