Hetu Kamisetty is a co-founder and CTO of Xaira and has played a pivotal role in scaling the firm since its inception in 2023. He has nearly two decades of experience in AI and ML. Prior to Xaira, he spent a decade at Meta, where he played a leading role in several AI-related initiatives, including early efforts in Generative AI. Before that, Hetu was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. David Baker's laboratory at the University of Washington, where he pioneered the use of self-supervised generative models of protein families in protein folding and design. Kamisetty holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, where his thesis focused on Probabilistic Models of Proteins, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Madras. At Xaira, Hetu and his team are focused on developing state-of-the-art AI models for drug discovery to address unmet clinical needs.