Robert Nishihara is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Anyscale and co-created the open-source distributed computing framework Ray. Robert Nishihara's Twitter Score is 43 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #21,683 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Robert Nishihara co-authored the original Ray paper, which describes Ray as a distributed framework built for emerging AI applications. Ray was developed at UC Berkeley RISELab, where Robert Nishihara previously conducted AI research, with the goal of addressing machine-learning and AI scaling challenges. Anyscale was subsequently co-founded to bring Ray to production environments, offering enterprises a managed platform built on top of the framework.
Robert Nishihara has been involved in multiple funding rounds for Anyscale. The company raised a $20.6 million Series A in December 2019, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from NEA, Intel Capital, Amplify Partners, 11.2 Capital, and The House Fund. A $40 million Series B followed in October 2020, led by NEA, and a $100 million Series C was announced in December 2021, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Addition. Security researchers at Oligo have also reported an active campaign exploiting exposed Ray deployments to install cryptocurrency miners, though Oligo noted that Anyscale handled the related disclosures transparently and responsively.
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