- Joined
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- SnowflakeResearch Scientist Intern
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition as an Applied AI engineer in Jul 2026, after Cognition had acquired Windsurf (agreement announced 2025-07-14, covering Windsurf's IP, product, brand and people); her role is customer-facing: working with and traveling to customers to teach them how to apply AI.Jul 2026
- Took a leave from her Stanford research master's (Distinction in Research, Google-funded per her profile) to join Cognition.Jul 2026
- Public headline says "Applied AI @ Cognition | Stanford CS".
- Ishita Gupta authored a LinkedIn post introducing Dora, an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts a video itinerary based on a user's TikTok profile.Mar 8, 2024With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration. After all, that's where the best travel content is, right? But as time is of the essence, spending hours on TikTok might not be the most efficient way to plan. Introducing Dora! (https://lnkd.in/geQuAfv4) Dora is an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts the perfect video itinerary based on your TikTok profile. Considering 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning, Dora simplifies the process, bypassing the need to sift through traditional travel
- Ishita Gupta wrote that 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning.Mar 8, 2024With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration. After all, that's where the best travel content is, right? But as time is of the essence, spending hours on TikTok might not be the most efficient way to plan. Introducing Dora! (https://lnkd.in/geQuAfv4) Dora is an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts the perfect video itinerary based on your TikTok profile. Considering 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning, Dora simplifies the process, bypassing the need to sift through traditional travel
- Ishita Gupta wrote verbatim: "With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration."Mar 8, 2024With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration. After all, that's where the best travel content is, right? But as time is of the essence, spending hours on TikTok might not be the most efficient way to plan. Introducing Dora! (https://lnkd.in/geQuAfv4) Dora is an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts the perfect video itinerary based on your TikTok profile. Considering 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning, Dora simplifies the process, bypassing the need to sift through traditional travel
- Ishita Gupta wrote verbatim: "Embrace the future of trip planning with Dora, because who really has time to browse TripAdvisor anymore?"Mar 8, 2024With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration. After all, that's where the best travel content is, right? But as time is of the essence, spending hours on TikTok might not be the most efficient way to plan. Introducing Dora! (https://lnkd.in/geQuAfv4) Dora is an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts the perfect video itinerary based on your TikTok profile. Considering 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning, Dora simplifies the process, bypassing the need to sift through traditional travel
- Ishita Gupta was listed as a founder/team member of Stapoo in Duke Innovation Studio's Spring 2022 Entrepreneurship Cohort, identified as 'Ishita Gupta (Stanford '25)'.Feb 19, 2022
- Ishita Gupta's Stapoo co-founders/team members were Aayushi Patel (Duke '25) and Aditya Gaur (Duke '25).Feb 19, 2022
- Ishita Gupta spoke about Stapoo during Stanford's Startup Demo Day organised by StartX and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.Sep 30, 2021I loved speaking about Stapoo during Stanford's Startup Demo Day organised by StartX. and the Stanford Graduate School of Education! I met so many amazing, inspiring entrepreneurs with amazing stories. Thank you, Aayushi Patel, Aditya Gaur and Anya Sukhtankar for being the best team ever, I wish you guys could have been here.
- Ishita Gupta thanked Aayushi Patel, Aditya Gaur and Anya Sukhtankar for being the best team ever.Sep 30, 2021I loved speaking about Stapoo during Stanford's Startup Demo Day organised by StartX. and the Stanford Graduate School of Education! I met so many amazing, inspiring entrepreneurs with amazing stories. Thank you, Aayushi Patel, Aditya Gaur and Anya Sukhtankar for being the best team ever, I wish you guys could have been here.
- Ishita Gupta wrote that she met many amazing, inspiring entrepreneurs with amazing stories at Stanford's Startup Demo Day.Sep 30, 2021I loved speaking about Stapoo during Stanford's Startup Demo Day organised by StartX. and the Stanford Graduate School of Education! I met so many amazing, inspiring entrepreneurs with amazing stories. Thank you, Aayushi Patel, Aditya Gaur and Anya Sukhtankar for being the best team ever, I wish you guys could have been here.
Building observability-focused AI tools for education with Professor John Mitchell and Chris Piech.
AI trust and observability Team. Built evaluation suite for AI agent tools using MCP-based systems, created debugging tools that surfaced critical bugs in Snowflake's agentic software. Taught a class at Stanford about my work (CS329T).
I am a Teaching Assistant for CS106A (Python Programming), and will be teaching CS106B (C++, Programming Abstractions) and 107e (Embedded Systems) in Winter 2023.
I worked at the PUC as part of their Grid Resilience and Energy Equity Docket. I wrote a Research Paper Analysing a potential Solar Farm in Rural Oahu. This internship is typically offered to Graduate Students aspart of the Shultz Energy Fellowships.
I lead a team that organised biweekly speaker events with 100+ students attending at each of them. Speakers included founders of Unicorn Businesses like Quizlet, and partners at Y Combinator.
I built a device that's preventing hundreds of thousands of cups from going to landfills in Sydney's Offices, and helped launched Australia's largest Circular Cup Sharing System.
I wrote about deep technology startups in Australia. My writing was read by many Australian Members of Parliament.
With finals week fast approaching and your spring break trip still unplanned, it's tempting to scroll through TikTok for inspiration. After all, that's where the best travel content is, right? But as time is of the essence, spending hours on TikTok might not be the most efficient way to plan. Introducing Dora! (https://lnkd.in/geQuAfv4) Dora is an AI-powered travel planning tool that crafts the perfect video itinerary based on your TikTok profile. Considering 80% of Gen Z relies on TikTok for travel planning, Dora simplifies the process, bypassing the need to sift through traditional travel
I loved speaking about Stapoo during Stanford's Startup Demo Day organised by StartX. and the Stanford Graduate School of Education! I met so many amazing, inspiring entrepreneurs with amazing stories. Thank you, Aayushi Patel, Aditya Gaur and Anya Sukhtankar for being the best team ever, I wish you guys could have been here.
