Sales/GTM · CTO of Federal

Elliot Branson

“CTO of Federal, Cognition AI”

Joined
Jan 2026
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
Vannevar LabsVice President of Engineering
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition

Autumn profile

Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
RoboticsProgrammingArtificial IntelligenceWeb DevelopmentMatlabComputer SciencePythonAlgorithmsC++LinuxMachine LearningLeadershipKalman filteringSLAMArtificial Intelligence (AI)ResearchRealtime Programming
Notes
  • Current role is CTO of Federal at Cognition.
  • Public headline says "CTO of Federal, Cognition AI".
  • Specialties: Artificial Intelligence Programing, Robotics, National Defense, Network Programing, Systems Deployment; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.
  • Previous roles include CTO of Federal at Cognition; Vice President of Engineering at Vannevar Labs; VP of Machine Learning & Engineering at Scale AI; Director of Machine Learning & Engineering at Scale AI; Head of Perception at Cruise Automation, Inc.; Graduate Student at University of Minnesota; Undergraduate Researcher at University of Minnesota; Undergraduate TA at University of Minnesota.
  • Location is San Francisco Bay Area.

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